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...nations in the commercial development of atomic power? In Washington last week the Joint Congressional Committee on Atomic Energy opened its annual hearings on the state of the atom, and promptly heard diametrically opposite answers to the question. Said Atomic Energy Commission Chairman Lewis Strauss: "No." Said his fellow AEC commissioner, Thomas Murray...
...there have been some delays in the nuclear-power program, but insisted that on the whole progress has been excellent. Strauss predicted that "five, and perhaps six" reactors, using varied methods of converting atomic energy to electricity, will be delivering power before this year's end. Most are AEC pilot models, but one is the big (100,000 kw.) AEC-Duquesne Light Co. reactor at Shippingport, Pa. In all, said Strauss, "at least 18" commercial reactors are under discussion, specific negotiation or construction in the U.S., and U.S. companies have announced plans for building seven more abroad...
Argonne's new reactor will produce only a trickle of power (5,000 kw.), but it is not intended as a commercial source of electricity. The first completed of the AEC's five experimental power reactors, it was designed specifically to evaluate one of the many approaches to the problem of cheap nuclear power...
During the summer of 1955 Von Neumann learned that he had cancer. As the disease progressed, he still kept at work, attended AEC meetings in a wheelchair as long as he was able. The last months of his life he spent in Walter Reed Army Hospital. There last week, at 53, he died...
...hearing of his death. President Eisenhower and AEC Chairman Lewis Strauss expressed heartfelt regrets to his wife. Both knew only too well that he could not be replaced...