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Nuclear power plants make some people nervous, reminding them of atom bombs. So the Atomic Energy Commission is facing a tough decision: whether to let such plants be built inside big cities. All eleven of the nuclear electricity generators built so far are located outside heavily populated areas, but New York's Consolidated Edison Co. wants to build a million-kilowatt nuclear plant in the heart of New York City, only two miles from Rockefeller Center. If AEC grants this request and others like it that will follow, it will surely arouse protests from nervous neighbors. If it refuses...
Back in 1951, when the U.S. began to worry about Russian-atom armed bombers, somebody had a notion that the invaders might steer by the crisscrossing waves of U.S. commercial broadcasting stations. Probably Russian navigators were never so helpless as that, but an official system, Conelrad (for Control of Electromagnetic Radiation), was set up to foil them. Under Conelrad regulations, all regular broadcasting would go silent during an attack, while stations going on and off the air on two special frequencies, 640 and 1240 kc., would stand ready to give instructions and comfort to the quaking population...
David Brinkley's Journal (NBC, 10-10:30 p.m.). Reunion with bomber group that dropped the atom bomb over Hiroshima. Repeat...
...problems and powerful potential of the split atom already seem old hat; laser is now the word for the future in half the world's laboratories. The almost magical optical-electronic devices are said to be sparkling with more possibilities than scientists can begin to count. But Austrian Physicist Hans Thirring gets particularly exasperated when loose talk conjures up images of long-distance death rays capable of killing incoming missiles, or of laser light broiling earth-side cities from bases on the moon...
Many corporate chiefs complain that Government research programs suffer from the bureaucratic ills of mismanagement, wastefulness, duplication and inefficiency. And every knowing businessman realizes that it takes a long time to translate Government research into new products in the marketplace; commercial atomic power, mail-by-missile and tourist trips to the moon are still very far from reality. An even greater concern for businessmen is that Government projects are luring the best researchers away from industry and pushing up the salaries of those who remain. "Scientists and engineers are just not interested in working on a new type of washing...