Angie Craig: “the reason I am speaking at this moment on the floor is that an event happened this week in Bonneville County, ID, in…”

“the reason I am speaking at this moment on the floor is that an event happened this week in Bonneville County, ID, in southeastern Idaho, that I think is significant not only to this Nation but ultimately to the world. A global nuclear service company selected that area of our country in my State to site a $2 billion uranium enrichment facility on a 400-acre farm west of Idaho Falls on Highway 20, a location that is very near the birthplace of global nuclear power and the nuclear industry. In 1951, the first light bulb was lit by nuclear power in Arco, ID. Of course, while that is a little known historical fact, the actual reactor itself is now a national historic location, so designated by the late President Lyndon Johnson a good number of years ago. Since that time forward, over 50 prototypes of nuclear reactors have been designed at the Idaho Nuclear Laboratory and our first nuclear plant for a submarine. In fact, I often laughingly say that out in a big bathtub in the middle of the high deserts of Idaho is a nuclear sub and that many who train to operate our nuclear Navy trained in Idaho.”