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...liberated Fast from the preoccupation that unnerves so many lesser artists-the desire to set down the precise truth. The setting of the more intelligible stories is perhaps the UTS.; the time now, or "the new order ... of hate and horror, fear, indecency and terror, the order of the atom kings and the oil kings...
Twelve hundred atomic scientists tucked away their well-filled notebooks, exchanged goodbyes and headed home from Geneva's Palace of Nations. After 13 veil-lifting days of give and take, the first International Conference on Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy (TIME, Aug. 22) was over. The talk had shed new light on every facet of peacetime atomics, from prospecting for ore to H-power. The last major debate: the biological hazards involved in nonmilitary use of the atom...
...reactor-probably of a similar design, and therefore behind U.S. models-will go into action within a year and will provide power on a competitive cost basis with coal-fed plants. The Russians also said that they are building the world's biggest atom smasher, one that will hurl protons (hydrogen nuclei) with energies as high as 10 billion volts against the nuclei of target atoms, enabling Soviet scientists to study the forces binding the atoms. In another paper read at Geneva, the Russians claimed to have discovered, by using radioactive isotopes as tracers, that plants photosynthesize protein...
...years after Hiroshima, 13 after man first split the atom, 1,200 atomic scientists from 72 nations filled Geneva's huge Palace of Nations last week with the excited babble of exploration and discovery. The first International Conference on Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy was a conclave of adventurous men and optimists caught up in the dream of a peaceful atomic revolution. "Now everybody feels he can talk freely," exclaimed the ranking U.S. expert, Atomic Energy Commissioner Willard Libby, a man seldom moved to excitement. "It's a great emotion-you can feel it all over the place...
...assure themselves of reactor fuel, the British are exploring the potential of thorium, an abundant metal once used in gaslamp mantles, as a replacement for uranium, which Britain must get at high cost from the U.S. While its atom cannot split like uranium, thorium can be converted by nuclear bombardment into fissionable U-233. In a breeder reactor seeded with plutonium or U-235, thorium could efficiently produce new fuel with compound interest. Moreover, the British announced, they are already operating a small, experimental "one-for-one" breeder reactor that produces one new neutron fuel for every neutron it consumes...