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Overstuffed Atom. Fields and his colleague Arnold Friedman decided that the best bet would be to bombard curium with carbon ions in a cyclotron. This would be quite a trick; curium, element No. 96, is itself synthetic and intensely radioactive. If any of it were fattened into element 102, the fragile, overstuffed atoms would predictably disintegrate in a few minutes...
...PUBLIC-POWER DRIVE for harnessing atom will be pressed by Democrats in Congress. They want AEC to build and run $210 million worth of atomic power projects, thus set precedent for Government operation of atom plants for consumers. If program is blocked, Democrats threaten to stop some appropriations for AEC, hold up confirmation of newly named AECommissioners John Graham and John Floberg...
From Ashes to Atoms. Fastest growing of the top three Farben heirs is Farbwerke Hoechst near Frankfurt, whose moving force is energetic Board Chairman Karl Winnacker, 53, a wartime Farben plant manager. Hoechst's sales-antibiotics, synthetic fibers, cellophane and oxygen-rocketed 17% last year to $355 million. Now the company is taking German industry's first steps toward harnessing the atom. It operates a nuclear research laboratory outside Frankfurt and is building a heavy-water plant (annual capacity: six tons) that will be among Europe's biggest when completed this year. Last week, with Atomic Energy...
...ATOMIC INSURANCE backed by Government will be approved by Congress, provide up to $500 million worth of liability coverage for nuclear power developers. It will supplement $65 million coverage offered by private insurance pools, which atom developers complained was too small. House passed bill providing U.S. liability coverage at low rate of $30 a year per 1,000 kw. and requiring all plants of 100,000 kw. to carry maximum available private insurance...
...TURBINE ENGINE is shaping up as most efficient power plant for future small-and medium-sized ships, with atom power limited to larger vessels. World's first ship powered solely by gas turbine, a reconditioned ten-knot U.S. Liberty, has run 20,000 trial miles without hitch, averaging about 14.8 knots with lower maintenance costs, less vibration than original steam engine...