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Caption: Nuclear Power Plant, Under The Dome, Power From The Atom--This building at Argonne National Laboratory houses an Experimental Boiling Water Reactor, the nation's first nuclear power system designed solely for experiments in producing such power, which will go into continuous operation today. The heat reactor was built to demonstrate the feasibility and safely of large scale power plants using uranium fuel.
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