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Russian papers published in 1939 and 1940, say the Rand team, prove that Soviet nuclear physics was as advanced at the time as in any other country. Its apparatus was plentiful and excellent. The first cyclotron on the European continent was in operation at the Leningrad Radium Institute before 1940. Two other cyclotrons were in the works, one of which (if the war had not intervened) would have been three times more powerful than the 60-inch cyclotron at Berkeley, then the world's biggest...
...formed per hour, but since each trail can be used for only one second, the transmitter has to send its message fast. This it does by an electronic mechanism which stores the message and sends it in a "burst" less than one second long. The receiving station has an apparatus that stores the burst and plays it out slowly as an understandable message...
...Janet system may be specially valuable for far-northern Canada. There ordinary radio communications are often fouled up by atmospheric irregularities connected with the northern lights, but signals reflected from meteor trails are largely unaffected. First chance at the new apparatus will go to Canada's armed services and to those of her allies. Civilians may get theirs later...
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...
...photomultiplier tubes are cooled by water flowing between them, and when the apparatus was at Los Alamos, goldfish were thriving in the water. Said Dr. Reines: "There is little interaction between neutrinos and goldfish...