After that time Argonne can start generating the world's most brilliant X-rays for materials research. Integral Fast Reactor Progress has been just as varied and just as encouraging on the Integral Fast Reactor. A full load of IFR fuel is now generating electricity at Experimental Breeder Reactor Two, which supplies power to the Idaho grid. Residents of that state, who used the world's first nuclear electricity from EBR-I, can now claim to be the first to use electricity from the nuclear fuel of the 21st century. Actually, the point in loading the IFR fuel into EBR-II is to assure a supply of irradiated fuel for reprocessing when we start demonstrating the fuel cycle facility.
Construction continues at that site.
Next month, we expect to cast the first americium as fuel slugs. A complete probability risk assessment was completed on EBR-II this year. It quantitatively verifies the advantages of the IFR safety features. Finally, the beginning of an IFR consortium from the major nuclear utilities is being formed. Teams of their leaders are scheduling visits right now to EBR-II to become familiar with our technology.