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52 IDAHO FALLS MAGAZINE MAY/JUNE 2017 From Imagination to Innovation Advanced Test Reactor celebrates 50-year legacy BY COREY TAULE In the middle of the Idaho desert sits a large building. Pale, smudged and non-descript, it rises and falls in uneven sections, contains only a few windows and is surrounded by virtually no landscaping. Wisps of steam rise out from the large cooling towers and disappear into a clear, blue sky. The core of the Advanced Test Reactor at power, exhibiting the blue Cherenkov Effect.

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