BORAX experiments

A cutaway view of the BORAX-V facility.
BORAX III steam turbine and generator.

The BORAX Experiments were a series of safety experiments on boiling water nuclear reactors conducted by Argonne National Laboratory in the 1950s and 1960s at the National Reactor Testing Station in eastern Idaho.[1] They were performed using the five BORAX reactors that were designed and built by Argonne.[2] BORAX-III was the first nuclear reactor to supply electrical power to the grid in the United States in 1955.

  1. ^ Light Water Reactor Technology Development, Argonne National Laboratory
  2. ^ USAEC Division of Technical Information (1970). ANL-175 – Nuclear Reactors Built, Being Built, or Planned in the United States as of June 30, 1970 TID-8200 (22nd Rev.) (PDF) (Report).