Security ... think about it!
"They must realize that they may have given the demonstration of a gift to the world that provides energy for a millennium," says Leon Walters, retired Division Director from the Argonne National Laboratory. On December 20, 1951 a reaction occurred that would change the future of electricity. The Experimental Breeder Reactor, or EBR-I, was the first to use atomic energy peacefully in the world, by powering four simple light bulbs.