RARE! The Story of the Borax Nuclear Reactor & EBR-1 Meltdown Arco Idaho History

RARE! The Story of the Borax Nuclear Reactor & EBR-1 Meltdown Arco Idaho History___________________________________The Story of the Borax Nuclear Reactor and the EBR-1 Meltdown:How it All Came to be; Destructive Test of the First Borax; Lighting of Arco with Atomic Power; the Russian Connectionby Ray Ottley Haroldsen (1928-2023)Published by Ray Ottley Haroldsen, Idaho Falls, Idaho (2008)ISBN: 9781566847063Condition:LIKE NEW Softcover Book! The binding is tight and all 94 pages within are bright white with NO WRITING, UNDERLINING, HIGH-LIGHTING, RIPS, TEARS, BENDS OR FOLDS. The covers look perfect, as can be seen in my photos. You will be happy with this one! Always handled and packaged with care!  Buy with confidence from a seller who takes the time to show you the details and not use just stock photos. Please check out all my pictures and email with any questions! Thanks for looking!About the Book:EBR-1 is a decommissioned nuclear reactor located about 18 miles from Arco, Idaho. The BORAX Experiments were a series of tests conducted in 1952 at EBR-I on the question of using a nuclear reactor to boil water. This book is an account of those tests, which were performed by a group of largely-untrained engineers, with little safety equipment and with almost no government oversight. The author also describes the events leading to the 1955 meltdown of EBR-1.About the author, Ray Ottley Haroldsen:Ray began his career working for the Argonne National Laboratory at the Experimental Breeder Reactor (EBR-1). Unfortunately, his clearance took longer than expected and he missed the start up of the first ever electricity from nuclear power by 2 weeks; however, he was the person who gave the command to flip the switch that powered the City of Arco for the United States' claim to be the first to use nuclear power for peaceful lighting of a civilian community. His work took him to Clearwater, FL, Naperville, Illinois and Washington DC. Eventually, he worked for the Nuclear regulatory commission and just before retirement, he performed regulatory safety checks for various nuclear power plants throughout the country.  OVERSEAS CUSTOMERS: BECAUSE EBAY INTERNATIONAL SHIPPING ONLY INSURES UP TO $100, THIS BOOK CAN ONLY BE MAILED BY USPS PRIORITY INSURED POSTAGECopyright © 2018-2024 TDM Inc. The photos and text in this listing are copyrighted. I spend lots of time writing up my descriptions and despise it when un-original losers cut and paste my descriptions in as their own. It is against ebay policy and if you are caught, you will be reported to ebay and could be sued for copyright infringement and damages.