Atomic Power Development Associates Test Site (Trenton, Michigan)

USA / Michigan / Riverview / Trenton, Michigan / Quarry, 502
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Starting in 1955, the APDA (Detroit Edison along with a consortium of other private sector companies) joined a government-financed push to develop technologies for a liquid metal-cooled fast breeder reactor. This group of companies intended to make nuclear power a commercially practicable means of electric power generation. The testing done at this location within Sibley Quarry would eventually go on to help create Fermi I, a nuclear power plant located a few miles south in Frenchtown, MI.
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Coordinates:   42°9'54"N   83°10'39"W
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