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...Passed, by a 49-(46 Democrat, 3 Republican) to-40 (all Republican) vote and sent to the House an Administration-opposed bill "authorizing and directing" the Atomic Energy Commission to spend $400 million to speed commercial atom-power development. The Administration's position: the AEC is already doing all it should rightly...
URANIUM ORE PRODUCTION in the U.S. is up to nearly 3,000,000 tons annually (v. 70,000 tons in 1948), thus making U.S. the free world's leading producer, says AEC Raw Materials Director Jesse C. Johnson. U.S. ore output will eventually climb to 5,000,000 or 6,000,000 tons annually...
Monstrous Assembly. Several years ago Drs. Frederick Reines and Clyde Cowan Jr., physicists of the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, armed themselves with AEC money and went hunting neutrinos. Their first attempts, with a monstrous assembly of special apparatus, were inconclusive (TIME, May 10, 1954). They thought they detected neutrinos streaming out of the AEC's great reactors at Hanford, Wash., but they were not sure. So they returned to Los Alamos and constructed an even more monstrous apparatus...
Best hunting ground for neutrinos is near nuclear reactors, from which, by the Fermi-Pauli theory, they stream in vast numbers. So Reines and Cowan took their apparatus to the AEC's Savannah River plant. They set it up in an underground room where it was sheltered from distracting cosmic rays but exposed to a flood of neutrinos from one of the great plutonium-producing reactors...
...second) had hit a proton (out of billions along its path) and turned it into a positron and a neutron. After watching this happen for a total of 1,371 hours and taking elaborate precautions to eliminate false signals, Reines and Cowan announced that they had really detected neutrinos. AEC Commissioner Willard F. Libby congratulated them on their "magnificent accomplishment." Now nuclear physics can use neutrinos without an uneasy conscience. Further neutrino experiments, Libby hinted, may reveal deep secrets about the structure of matter. They may tell what happened to matter that turned into neutrinos in the hearts of stars...