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Oh, that place is so cool. Never mind it also has two experimental atomic aircraft engines (HTRE-2 and HTRE-3) sitting outside.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aircraft_Nuclear_Propulsion

(And while in the area, you can pop over to Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve.)

I want to go to the site of the CP-1 reactor. Not much left but a plaque, but that's where the modern age really began. Apparently you can buy some graphite from the CP-1 as a paperweight, but I'm not sure how legit it is. They say you can buy trinitite too, but the market has a lot of fakes.

Getting graphite from CP-1 would be a dream of mine. Some of my friends have been given some after climbing the corporate ladder better than I have.

For a time, Argonne National Laboratory was raffling off lucite-encased blocks of CP-1 graphite at conferences. They probably have a stockroom somewhere of the stuff to give to VIPs, etc.

I visted EBR-1 last year - this is definitely a hidden gem!