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 Ah, route 20, we meet again. I've come 1201 km, or 746 miles, since Newport, where we both started. It must have come a similar distance. There's a reason for the word "atomic" here. The first town on the first of my cycling trips was Alta, which was the first town in the world to have electric lighting. This town, Arco, is the first ever to have been completely lit by electricity from nuclear power. It was done for about an hour in 1955, using a 2 MW reactor at the nearby Idaho National Laboratory. A 5 MW reactor at Obninsk in Russia had supplied electricity to the public in 1954 but had not powered a whole town. Calder Hall at Sellafield claims to be the first industrial scale nuclear plant. It was turned on in 1956 and produced 60 MW. There will be more about the Idaho National Laboratory tomorrow. UTC Time: 00:29, Tuesday 08 August 2017 Local Time: 18:29, Monday 07 August 2017 Estimate of longitude: 113° 18' 9.61" W = -113.302670° Estimate of latitude: 43° 38' 18.89" N = 43.638580° Possible error on position estimate: 5 metres | |