In 1949, the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) was built in the southeast Idaho desert. Just two years later, the power produced by the nuclear energy reactors was enough to light up the town of Arco — making it the first in the world to do so.

That technology was just in its infancy then. Now, more than seven decades later, nuclear energy has evolved into a power source that produces 50% of the country’s carbon-free electricity. 

“We're at a point in our evolution as a country and as humankind, of realizing that we're incredibly power intensive, and this is only increasing the need. So you have to have a clean energy solution” John Jackson, a staff scientist and engineer at INL and the national technical director for the DOE office of Nuclear Energy's Microreactor Program, said. "People are recognizing the potential for nuclear energy as a clean baseload source of power.”

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