Preview of "Idaho's Nuclear Navy"
Preview: Season 7 Episode 2 | 30s
The Nuclear Navy has ties to Idaho. Idaho Experience looks at the Naval Reactors Facility.
In the early fifties, the U.S. Navy under the leadership of Admiral Hyman Rickover was hard at work developing a nuclear-powered engine to drive submarines and aircraft carriers. The efforts created the Naval Reactors Facility in the desert outside Idaho Falls. Idaho Experience working with the Idaho State Historic Preservation Office will tell Idaho’s part in creating the U.S. Nuclear Navy.
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Idaho Experience is a local public television program presented by IdahoPTV
Idaho Experience is made possible with funding from the James and Barbara Cimino Foundation, Anne Voillequé and Louise Nelson, Judy and Steve Meyer, the Friends of Idaho Public Television, the Idaho Public Television Endowment, and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
Preview of "Idaho's Nuclear Navy"
Preview: Season 7 Episode 2 | 30s
In the early fifties, the U.S. Navy under the leadership of Admiral Hyman Rickover was hard at work developing a nuclear-powered engine to drive submarines and aircraft carriers. The efforts created the Naval Reactors Facility in the desert outside Idaho Falls. Idaho Experience working with the Idaho State Historic Preservation Office will tell Idaho’s part in creating the U.S. Nuclear Navy.
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Idaho Experience is a local public television program presented by IdahoPTV
Idaho Experience is made possible with funding from the James and Barbara Cimino Foundation, Anne Voillequé and Louise Nelson, Judy and Steve Meyer, the Friends of Idaho Public Television, the Idaho Public Television Endowment, and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.