BORAX - CONSTRUCTION AND OPERATION OF A BOILING WATER REACTOR

Duration: 14 min

Year Published: 1955

Creator: Atomic Energy Commission

Color: B&W

Sound: Optical sound

Description: Shows the construction and operation of a boilingwater reactor, and explains how electricity produced from this reactor was used experimentally for an hour in the summer of 1955 for light and power in Arco, Idaho, the first U S community to be lighted exclusively on a city-wide basis by atomic power.