Upon reflection, I don’t think I addressed your question well. I don’t have any reference to the decision about Fermilab as it was a verbal discussion. He ment

Upon reflection, I don’t think I addressed your question well. I don’t have any reference to the decision about Fermilab as it was a verbal discussion. He mentioned that Scoop Jackson, often called the senator from Boeing, was angling to have it located in Washington. My professors friends at Bonneville called him in a bit of a panic to say that the power grid would not be able to handle the load. So he ran a simulation, knowing that power grid rather well, and demonstrated that the lights across the Pacific Northwest would dim every four seconds. Same simulation for Illinois showed no flicker.