December 20, 2021

If you happen to drive across the desert of southeastern Idaho among the miles of sagebrush, you will notice a lone faded brick building standing out starkly against the sweeping blue horizon.   All lit up! With just four lightbulbs, EBR-I completely reshaped the nation’s energy future. This building, Experimental...

December 13, 2021

When you spend your summer interning as a tour guide at Experimental Breeder Reactor-I, also known as EBR-I and one of America’s most unique museums, you’ll get asked some interesting questions.  Before they were INL employees, Michelle Goff, Caitlin McNamara and Alana Haack spent a few summers interning as tour guides at...

April 29, 2021

Although it might be hard to calculate the total brainpower of Idaho National Laboratory over its 70-plus years of existence, it would be impossible to imagine it at all without the contributions of Bernice Paige. A chemist who arrived in...

February 16, 2021

Much of the research occurring at Idaho National Laboratory focuses on science, rather than history. However, the INL site is also home to a rich history that has shaped the lab’s work. INL’s history lives on and informs its current...

January 19, 2021

An artist’s rendition of what the Snake River Plain might have looked like 13,000 to 15,000 years ago, at the end of the last ice age, when woolly mammoths, giant bison and other species roamed the region. Some of the...

November 18, 2020

As empty as the land might look, there is a lot of history in Idaho Falls’ backyard: 890 square miles of land now called Idaho National Laboratory. Before the U.S. government established the National Reactor Testing Station in 1949, many...

November 26, 2019

When it was time for his twin granddaughters to learn to drive, James W. Codding Jr. taught them in his farm truck on the family ranch off of Cotton Road. “It was a big one-ton Dodge, ugly blue,” said Jeré...

October 14, 2019

If there’s a simple rule in Loren Webb’s family with regard to Idaho National Laboratory and the opportunities it offers, it might be “get your foot in the door, then work hard.” It worked for him in 1955, when he...

September 5, 2019

On graduation day, the valedictorian of Leadore High School Class of ’49 spoke to his 10 fellow classmates about what the newly announced National Reactor Testing Station (NRTS) might mean to the region and the world. “People said it would...

June 14, 2019

Throughout 70 years of rich history at Idaho’s national laboratory, generations of esteemed scientists and engineers have joined the lab’s team of researchers. In Idaho Falls, three generations of young men grew up with mechanical engineering aspirations, nurtured on the...