A different kind of power plant called a fast-breeder reactor works a different way, producing its own plutonium fuel in a self-sustaining process. Its chain reaction is much closer to what happens in a nuclear bomb and it doesn't work through a moderator. That's why a fast-breeder react...
Minidoka itself is in the southern Idaho desert, and served once as a Japanese-American internment camp during World War II. However, Washington has a connection to the site through Bainbridge Island. This was where many of the first Japanese-Americans were ordered off the island and sent to...