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Jim Risch: “This is the first time it'll happen in the universe.”

Featuring: Jim Risch, Republican | U.S. Senate Idaho

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Senator Risch Questions Secretary Wright on Nuclear Energy

Published | Video Starts at 00:58

… is the fact that you know that on or about the Fourth of July, they're going to go critical with three microreactors at the Idaho National Lab. That's really appropriate. This is the first time it'll happen in the universe. Just as in December 51 when they lit three light bulbs with electricity. It was the first time done in the universe. So it's appropriate it's being done there. (00:58–01:01)

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Asserts that the activation of three microreactors at the Idaho National Lab is unprecedented globally.

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