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Jim Risch: “We in Idaho in 1951 demonstrated for the first time that…”

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

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Jim Risch Discusses Future Electricity Demand and Nuclear Energy Renaissance

Published | Video Starts at 00:47

It's a problem. But the good news is that this particular problem we know how to deal with, and that is we know how to generate electricity. We in Idaho in 1951 demonstrated for the first time that nuclear energy could be used to create electricity. and we've been at it ever since. Of course, we had the setback as a result of Three Mile island, but which really put us a generation behind. (00:47–00:55)

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Asserts that Idaho was the first to demonstrate the use of nuclear energy for electricity in 1951.

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