CHILDHOO Editor’s Note: Fifty-two nuclear reactors have been built and tested in the desert just outside Idaho Falls since 1949. But the New York Times recently reported that a wide cross-section of Idaho citizens now want to prevent their state from continuing as a nuclear proving ground, and they are opposing a Department of Energy plan to build four new reactors to produce fuel for nuclear weapons. In Idaho Falls, a town that reveled in its status as the atomic city, that’s an unusual turn of events as you can see from this account of growing up there in the '50s. Quarte r/y.
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