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...each) will burn natural uranium, turning a little of the nonfissionable U-238 into plutonium. When enough plutonium is available, more efficient reactors will use it as fuel, some of them turning comparatively cheap thorium into fissionable U-233. Eventually Britain will build breeder reactors that produce more fuel than they consume...
Argentina's Strongman Juan PerÓn, already acclaimed at home as his nation's No. 1 worker, No. 1 engine-driver, No. 1 journalist and No. 1 sportsman, won his oddest title yet. The canary breeders of the city of Rosario (pop. 522,000) presented Aviculturist Peron with a pink warbler, a gold medal and bird-seeded him as the Argentine's No. 1 canary breeder...
...plutonium could be made into atom bombs, but Dr. Bhabha is sure that India will never make a bomb. He wants to use all the plutonium in breeder reactors to turn India's thorium into ever-growing amounts of nuclear fuel...
...Leader, at 67, is a prosperous breeder of Black Angus cattle and prize poultry. "Leader Leghorns'' are justly famed in eastern Pennsylvania: the two top egg-laying hens at the Harrisburg state egg-laying contest in 1953 and 1954 came from the lush, 500-acre Leader Farms, and Leader Angus cattle have been Grand Champions in the last four Reading fairs. Like most Yorkmen, Guy Leader learned his trade early. "It became my job to assist my mother with her flock of chickens,'' he recalls, "caring for setting hens, making coops from store boxes...
...Thorium Breeder. The most radical of the reactors will be "homogeneous," i.e., its uranium, instead of being in the form of solid rods, will be a solution of uranye sulfate. Dr. Smyth did not say in what liquid its uranium will be dissolved. A fair guess is that it may be heavy water. Since the reactor will be a breeder, it must be economical of neutrons, and heavy water does not absorb as many neutrons as ordinary water does. Instead of breeding U-238 into plutonium, the excess neutrons from its reacting core will be absorbed in thorium, turning...