Historic Idaho Reactors Detailed at ANS Winter Meeting
![Installation of SPERT-II reactor vessel. From IDO-16050, published 1959, in Will Davis library.](https://cdn.ans.org/cafe/2016/11/Spert-II-vessel-lift-install.jpg)
Installation of SPERT-II reactor vessel at National Reactor Testing Station, now Idaho National Laboratory. From IDO-16050, published 1959, in Will Davis library.
The history and lore surrounding the dozens of reactors constructed and operated at the Idaho National Laboratory could fill a book - and has filled at least one whole book and parts of many others. Today, at the American Nuclear Society's 2016 Winter Meeting a unique presentation was given in the early afternoon by Harold McFarlane, who retired after 44 years working with Argonne National Laboratory (which operated a number of the reactors built in Idaho.)