Originally named Root Hog, Arco was the first city in the world to be powered by nuclear energy.  On July, 17 1955, for about one measly hour, a small research reactor called the Experimental Breeder Reactor-I located at the Idaho National Laboratory, provided all of the towns energetic needs solely from Nuclear power.  Now, when i think of Nuclear energy, i imagine the two hourglass shaped cement silos from The Simpsons or a bunch of eroding 55 gallon metal barrels oozing green slime from rusty cracks and plastered with radioactive stickers, leaking into the ground, streaming and making hissing noises all the while.  I thought it was the green slime that had been used to create energy, like the chemical reaction just produced energy and that energy went straight into large batteries or whatever the hell energy is stored as.  However, that is not the case at all, rather the atoms of uranium-235 or plutonium-239 are split in a nuclear reactor, releasing a huge amount of energy in the form of heat, which is used to boil water and create high-pressured steam which spins a turbine, which is connected to a generator which converts this mechanical energy into electricity, which is then sent to power grids or directly to homes and businesses.  Nope, no romantic boiling green slime, bubbling and churning in a huge cauldron with some black hat wearing witch stirring and casting spells into the abyss that just turns into energy, just hot water and turbines…