Sunday Drive: Going radioactive in the Idaho desert

Sunday Drive: Going radioactive in the Idaho desert

Carole and I stared at our ginormous atomic burger from the counter stools at Pickle’s Place in Arco, Idaho, population 879. She wondered how we were going to eat it. I was more concerned if it was radioactive. Arco sits in the Snake River Plain an hour due west of Idaho Falls. One of its claims to fame was that in 1955 It became the first community in the world to be electrified through nuclear power. Today, the nearby EBR-1 reactor stands sile…