Science Vacation at Idaho’s Experimental Breeder Reactor
February 28, 2008 by Mary Jo Manzanares
Filed under Things to See & Do
Vacations are not always about fun and games. Sometimes its also about culture and education. If you’re a fan of history and science, head off the beaten path to a little town in the Idaho desert by the name of Arco.
Arco is less than a square mile in size, with a population just over a thousand, but it made its mark on the world as the first city to be lit by nuclear power.
About 18 miles southeast of Arco is a deactivated research reactor. In 1951, Experimental Breeder Reactor I (EBR-1) became the world’s first nuclear power plant to …read more
