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BORAX experiments
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<p>The BORAX Experiments were a series of safety experiments on <a href="/facts/Boiling_water_reactor/nc0lJKTS">boiling water nuclear reactors</a> conducted by <a href="/facts/Argonne_National_Laboratory/EAoR1Rnm">Argonne National Laboratory</a> in the 1950s and 1960s at the <a href="/facts/National_Reactor_Testing_Station/HGyEyBxn">National Reactor Testing Station</a> in eastern <a href="/facts/Idaho/68ELs9Um">Idaho</a>. They were performed using the five BORAX reactors that were designed and built by Argonne. BORAX-III was the first nuclear reactor to supply electrical power to the <a href="/facts/North_American_power_transmission_grid/qx3uekW8">grid</a> in the United States in 1955. </p>