Idaho National Laboratory - Proving the Principle

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Proving the Principle

A History of The Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory, 1949-1999, by Susan M. Stacy

Dedicated to the pioneers of the NRTS who were part of the nuclear science adventure, and to the employees of the INL who continue the adventure of science.

Introduction
Chapter 1 - Aviator's Cave
Chapter 2 - The Naval Proving Ground
Chapter 3 - The Uranium Trail Leads to Idaho
Chapter 4 - The Party Plan
Chapter 5 - Inventing the Testing Station
Chapter 6 - Fast Flux, High Flux, and Rickover's Flux
Chapter 7 - Safety Inside and Outside the Fences
Chapter 8 - The Reactor Zoo Goes Critical
Chapter 9 - Hot Stuff
Chapter 10 - Cores and Competencies
Chapter 11 - The Chem Plant
Chapter 12 - Reactors Beget Reactors
Chapter 13 - The Triumph of Political Gravity Over Nuclear Flight
Chapter 14 - Imagining the Worst
Chapter 15 - The SL-1 Reactor
Chapter 16 - The Aftermath
Chapter 17 - Science in the Desert
Chapter 18 - The Shaw Effect...
Chapter 19 - ...And the Idaho Boost
Chapter 20 - A Question of Mission
Chapter 21 - By the End of this Decade
Chapter 22 - Jumping the Fence
Chapter 23 - The Endowment of Uranium
Chapter 24 - The Uranium Trail Fades
Chapter 25 - Mission: Future
Appendices
- INEEL Managers and Contractors
- Fifty Years of Reactors at the Site
- Processing Runs, Idaho Chemical Processing Plant
- Criticality Accidents, Idaho Chemical Processing Plant
- R&D 100 Awards