DOE Idaho National Laboratory: From Copper Wires to Supercomputers
March 29, 2024
March 29, 2024
IDAHO FALLS, Idaho, March 29 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Idaho National Laboratory issued the following news release on March 28, 2024:
Telecommunications in eastern Idaho today are vastly different from how they were in 1949, the year the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) founded the National Reactor Testing Station, now Idaho National Laboratory. The days of copper wire, switchboard exchanges and phone numbers beginning with names (JAckson for Idaho Falls, SUnset for Blackfoot . . .
Telecommunications in eastern Idaho today are vastly different from how they were in 1949, the year the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) founded the National Reactor Testing Station, now Idaho National Laboratory. The days of copper wire, switchboard exchanges and phone numbers beginning with names (JAckson for Idaho Falls, SUnset for Blackfoot . . .