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...this week began, Stevenson held his first press conference in more than three weeks, told reporters that, unlike Ike, he would not give blanket endorsement to all candidates running on his party's ticket. (He did not name any Democrats whom he did not intend to endorse.) Derisively, Stevenson described the Taft-Eisenhower meeting (see above) as "the first time that the vanquished has dictated the peace terms to the victor." Said he: "I gather that the Republican progressives who fought so hard for the general at Chicago are wondering what has become of the 'great crusade...
...Core & Blanket. Zuckert did not explain what he meant by a "power only" reactor, but in the current issue of Nucleonics, Dr. W. H. Zinn, director of the AEC's Argonne National Laboratory, described the experimental "breeder" reactor built and operated by the University of Chicago at Arco, Idaho. It produces "power only" by burning its own byproduct, plutonium...
...active core of the Arco breeder is about the size of a football. It is made of "enriched uranium," i.e., uranium rich in fissionable 11-235. Around the core is a "fertile blanket" of 11-238, the spent metal that remains when U-235 is extracted from natural uranium to make atom bombs. Through both blanket and core circulates a sodium-potassium alloy that is liquid at ordinary temperatures. This coolant carries away the heat of the nuclear reaction. The fluid metal leaves the reactor at 660° F., and produces enough steam to generate 250 kw. of power...
More important is what happens in the blanket of U-238. The fissioning U-235 in the core sends out a dense flux of highspeed neutrons. They are absorbed by the blanket, turning some of its U-238 into plutonium. Since this is also fissionable, it can be extracted chemically and used as fuel in the heat-giving core...
...Blanket. In Passaic, N.J., Mrs. Louis Miller sued her husband for divorce on grounds that he objected to her daily hot showers, complained to her: "You should have married a millionaire or somebody who owns a gas company...