Word: atomic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Kistiakowsky, a member of the Harvard Faculty since 1930, is known for studies in the mechanics of chemical reactions. During World War II he devised a system of conventional explosives to trigger the first atom bomb...
...became chief of the explosives division of the Los Alamos Laboratory of the Manhattan Project, which produced the atom bomb. For this work he received the President's Medal for Merit...
Since that shining moment of man's ascendancy over nature, the atom's peril has more often overshadowed its promise. The U.S. alone has enough nuclear megadestruction stored in warheads to equal the explosive power of ten tons of TNT for every person on earth. Efforts to harness the atom's illimitable energy for peaceful uses have been as humble as its squash-court birth. Despite glowingly optimistic predictions, the atom has remained little more than an experimental tool in medicine, mining and a myriad of other fields. Only now is nuclear energy beginning to prove...
...takeoff in the last few years for using the atom commercially has been little short of phenomenal," declares the White House's Special Assistant on Science Robert Barlow. "Today it seems like any guess you make is wrong-everybody is drastically revising their estimates...
Reason for the surge in nuclear-power plant construction: they are finally becoming competitive with natural gas and coal. While the original atomic-power plants generated 60,000 kilowatts at a cost of eight mills per kilowatt-hour-v. four mills for power from coal and gas installations-new million-kilowatt plants may even undercut the costs of conventional electricity. Each of the Tennessee Valley Authority's two new 1,065,000 kilowatt private nuclear-power plants, to be built at Brown's Ferry, Ala., is expected to produce electricity at a cost of only 31 mills...