b'P ROVING THE P RINCIPLETa b e r, Idaho, 10 United States Air Force, 25-26, 108, 115, 118, 120-126, Wake atoll, 8Taconite contracting Corporation, 106 141, 222 Wal kre , Marvin, 40Tamplin, A r t h u r, 200 United States Air Force, 108, 115, 141, 222; and nuclear- Walters, Leon, 233Tautphaus Park, 158 powered airplane engine, 25-26, 11 8- 1 Ward, J. Carlton Jr., 252 7Ta y l o r, Dr. John, 70 United States A r my , 28, 40, 118, 126; Corps of Engineers Warm Springs, Boise, 215TCell, 103 assists NRTS, 39-40; detonation research at NPG, 13- WASH-1539, 208, 210-211Technical Services Building, 192 14, 16; food irradiation, 112, 189; nuclear power plant Washington (state), 188-189Technical Support Building (TSAand TSB), 249 program, 25, 138-142, 154-155, 165; Project X Washington Post,2 0 6Technology Transfer program, 251 (Specific Manufacturing Capability), 228-229. See waste, non-nuclear, 82, 84-85Tennessee Eastman, 158 also Manhattan District waste, nuclear. See radioactive waste Tennessee Valley A u t ho r i t y, 248 United States Congress, 227; pass At o Waste Area Groups (WAGs), 247m ci Terreton, Idaho, 43, 120 En e rgy/ERDA/DOE acts, 24-25, 108, 218; authorize Waste Calcining Facility, 169-172. See alsoca l c inn i gTarpaper Palace, 57 (or not) projects at NRTS, 73, 184, 206, 214, 228, Waste Experimental Reduction Facility (WERF), 247, Terteling Company, J.A. 10 247; Clinch River project, 226, 232; Interior Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, 219-220, 254Test Area North (TAN), 177, 247; site of A N Pp r o g r a m , Committee, 241; response to 1970s energy crisis, 212, Waste Processing Building, 100. See alsoIdaho Chemical4, 120, 124-125; site of LOFTexperiments, 178-179; 214. See also Joint Committee on Atomic EnergyProcessing Plantsite of 630-Ar eat, 187; site of SMC, Project X, United States Geological Survey, 40, 61; and NRTSWatkins, James D., 93c or228; site of SNAPexperiments, 164-165. See also Burial Ground, 74-76, 82-83, 198-199 Watson, Don, 187-188Hot Shop United States Marines, 2, 12-13, 227 Waymack, William M., 25Test Grid No. III, 11 6 United States Naval Research Laboratory, Wa s h i n gton Wehmann, George, 201, 203,Test Reactor Area (TRA), 4, 162, 216, 226, 247; liquid D.C., 21 Wei n rb e g, Alvin, 50waste retention basin, 83, 84; radiation survey, 77; United States Navy: and AEC acquisition of proving Weiner Roast No. 1, 116 reactor operations, 108, 160, 162, 174. See also ground, 27, 35, 36, 38, 41; as customer for materials Weizs a ck er , Von, 22 names of reactors testing reactors, 70-71, 115, 160-161, 194-195, 197, West, the American, 158, 191, 194, 214Third World, 126 226, 238; Expended Core Facility, 86-89; NRT S West Germany, 231This Atomic World exhibit, Idaho Falls, 190 training school, 89-93, 238; operates Arco Naval West Monument Road, 11Thomas, Marion E., 54 Proving Ground, 8-17, 39; operates prototype Western Beam Research Reactor (WBRR), 194-195Thompson, Theos J., 200 reactors, 51-53, 72, 112, 165, 238; pursues nuclear Western Governors Association, 191Thousand Springs, Idaho, 58, 198 propulsion, 21-23, 26, 44; reprocesses spent naval Western Interstate Nuclear Compact, 191Three Cell Personnel Entry, 203 nuclear fuel, 104, 240; role in Idaho Settlement Westinghouse Company, 189; contractor for NautilusThree Mile Island (TMI), 156, 224-226, 230, 233, 255 Agreement, 238, 241-243. Mentioned, 46, 77, 84, nuclear power plant, 51-53, 69-72; developer ofCharles Till, 232-234, 236 106, 126, 137, 141, 252. See also Naval Proving commercial power plants, 152, 156, 177, 179Tin , Fred, 246 Ground; Rickover, Hyman; Watkins, James D.; names White Horse Bar, 38g ey TNT, 13-16, 23, 243, 251 of naval reactor prototypes (Submarine Th e r m alWhitman, Narcissa, 7 Transient Reactor Test (TREAT) Facility, 136, 140, 165, R ea c o , A1 W, S5G); Naval Reactors Facility; nuclear Wilcynski, John, 252-253 t r186, 233 na v y Williams, Charles A. 219, 221 transuranic (TRU) waste, 77, 208, 220, 244; definition of, United States Public Health Service, 198 Willow Creek Building (WCB), 24979-80; retrieval of, at Burial Ground/RWMC, 200- United States Soil Conservation Service, 40 Wilson, Al, 208203, 208-211. See also Rocky Flats; plutonium; United States Supreme Court, 152 Wilson, Charles, 116 waste, nuclear United States Tr e a su ry, 15 Wilson, Robert, 153Transuranic Storage Area, 77 United States Weather Bureau, 39-40, 60-61, 85, 123, 130 Windscale Pile No. 1 reactor, UK, 250Trent, Charles H., 177 University of Idaho (U of I), 113, 204-205, 253 Winsdcale Reprocessing Plant, UK, 167Trident, 227 University of Chicago, 22, 56 Wi s c o n s i n, 8Triga, 197 University of Missouri, 196 Witham, Kirby, 48Trinity fireball, 19 University of Missouri Research Reactor, 133 Woman Ordnance Worker (WOW), 11 - 1 2tritium, 96, 220-221, 227-228University of Oklahoma, 214 Working Agreement, 221Truman, Harry S., 25, 27, 40, 78, 106, 108 University of Rochester, 158 World War II, 7-17. See alsoatomic bomb; ManhattanTuttle, A. R., 35 Uner m y er , Samuel, 128, 130 P roectt j Twin Falls County Republican Central Committee, 190 Uranium: decay products, 18, 20; depleted, 15, 18, 79, Wyoming, 6Twin Falls, Idaho, 59, 190, 220 228-229; discovery and use, 18-27, 184-187, 231; Yellowstone National Park, 32-33Twin Falls Times New, 190s recovery of, from spent fuel, 94-105, 169-170, 229, Zaire, 18Two-Phase Flow Loop, 226 232. Mentioned, 2, 56, 81, 146, 158. See also atomic Zero Power Physics Reactor (ZPPR), 136, 200Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), 25, 108, bomb; fuel(s), nuclear; fuel, spent nuclear; half-life; Zero Power Reactor No. 3 (ZPR-III), 162, 177132, 138, 228; arms/technology race with U.S., 40, names of reactors Zinn, Wa l te, 44; and breeder reactor ideas, 23-24, 135-r59, 91, 126 US News and World Report, 207 136; and siting of facilities, 26, 36-38, 48, 50-51; andUnion Pacific Railroad, 8, 10-11 Utah, 53, 188, 195, 212, 214-215 EBR-I, 40, 64-66, 135-136; and BORAX and SPERTUnited Auto Workers (UAW), 152Utah Power and Light (UP&L), 38, 131-132 programs, 130-134 United Kingdom, 250 Valley Forge, 192 zirconium, 94, 99, 187, 224, 234United Nations, 107-108, 131, 162 Van deGraff generators, 20 Z irc a l oy , 179United States, 108, 184, 186, 194, 214; arms/technology Vietnam, 17, 155, 222race with USSR, 25, 40, 59, 91, 126; atomic bomb, Voelz, George, 138, 144, 156, 16822-23. See also Manhattan Project Vycor glass molds, 166United States Advanced Battery Consortium, 217 Wade, Troy E., 221, 228, 249324'