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Argonne National Laboratory’s fast reactors in Idaho
Idaho’s nuclear energy history is deep and rich. The National Reactor Testing Station (NRTS) began its history as an artillery testing range in the 1940s.1 Following World War II, Walter Zinn, Argonne National Laboratory’s founding director and Manhattan Project Chicago Pile-1 project manager, proposed to the Atomic Energy Commission that a remote location be found for building test reactors. In 1949, he and Roger S. Warner, AEC’s director of engineering,2 developed a list of potential sites from which the NRTS was selected. Over the decades, quite a few companies and AEC national laboratories built 52 experimental and test reactors at the NRTS, including 14 by Argonne.3 (For a brief AEC video on the NRTS, see youtube.com/watch?v=C458NsH08TI.)
Haojie Zhang (Beijing Jiaotong Univ.), Zhuqian Zhang (Beijing Jiaotong Univ.), Lixin Yang (Beijing Jiaotong Univ.)
Proceedings | 20th International Topical Meeting on Nuclear Reactor Thermal Hydraulics (NURETH-20) | Washington, D.C., August 20-25, 2023 | Pages 5058-5071