20/12/2020
in 1951, EBR-I became the first power plant to produce usable electricity through atomic fission. It powered four 200-watt lightbulbs 💡 and eventually generated enough electricity to light the entire facility.
EBR-I was a liquid metal-cooled fast reactor designed to demonstrate that it could create more fuel than it consumed. Not only do liquid metal coolants like sodium – or the sodium-potassium alloy used in EBR-I – transfer heat better than today's light-water reactors, but they also have a more sustainable fuel cycle over a longer period of time.
Learn more: https://bit.ly/37tCXYi
📷 : Idaho National Laboratory
