Word: bismuth
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...changing its sales contracts to include extra charges for valuable bismuth sprinkled through its copper byproducts, Kennecott Copper this year will earn an extra $100,000. Accountant Robert J. Edwards, who proposed the addition, has profited too. The $25,000 that Kennecott awarded him made Edwards the top winner among 500,000 employees to whom major corporations paid $19 million for suggestions last year...
Background exposure to radiation is about five rem for a non-smoker, and for the heavy smoker about 36 rem. Even this estimate "is probably conservative, and the dose could be 100 rem or more," when the additional radioactive effect of lead 210 and bismuth 210 absorption is included, the report says...
...President authorizing the General Services Administration to sell 2,000,000 Ibs. of goosefeathers and down (used in sleeping bags, flight jackets, survival suits), which it has been hoarding since 1947 (along with iodine, opium, castor oil, sperm oil, diamonds, sapphires, rubies, instruments, missiles, aluminum, tin, zinc, lead, nickel, bismuth and platinum). When Delaware's Senator John Williams asked how many feathers the Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization had collected, he was told that the information was classified...
...paper but turn out to be impractical in actual use. In its effort to develop low-cost nuclear power, the Atomic Energy Commission has long experimented at such places as Brookhaven National Laboratory on Long Island, with new liquid reactor fuels-a low-melting alloy of U-233 and bismuth, a solution of uranyl sulfate, and others. But AEC soon discovered that the program was leading only to prohibitively expensive means of obtaining competitive electrical energy, and last week it announced a shift in emphasis: funds for the Brookhaven liquid-fuel project and similar ones elsewhere have been largely diverted...
SNAP III was developed under a modest $15,000 AEC contract with the Martin Co. of Baltimore working in conjunction with the Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing Co. But the polonium, which is made by radiating bismuth in an atomic pile, costs about $10 per curie. SNAP's charge is the equivalent of 3,000 curies, bringing the price of fuel in the capsule to $30,000. An AEC official explained that some cheaper isotope might later be substituted for polonium. If cerium 144 can be used, the unit cost might be as low as $600 per battery...