As one drives west across Idaho from Idaho Falls on highway 20 there is a whole lot of nothing until, bam, EBR-I and Idaho National Laboratory. EBR-I is open to the public and we decided, what the heck, we likely will never be by here again. EBR-I is Experimental Breeding Reactor One and was able to power its own facilities as a nuclear power plant.
Here is the floor where fuel rods were stored:
We didn’t spend much time there (Corinne and Heather were not exactly interested) so it was on to Arco for lunch at Pickle’s Place.
Across the street from Pickle’s Place is the Arco Science Park. Might as well let the girls burn off some energy. They have a torpedo and a submarine conning tower.
The conning tower from the USS Hawkbill, SSN-666:
Then we were ready for our main destination of the day, Craters of the Moon National Monument.