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...agonizing hours wore on, the groggy, red-eyed diggers received atomic-age assistance. From the AEC's nearby Brookhaven Laboratories came a set of tempered-steel tubes (used as gamma-ray shields) that telescoped one inside the other like a nest of cups; they were trip-hammered into the loft. wall that separated Benny from his rescuers. At 7:32 p.m., 23 hours and 48 minutes after Benny had plunged down the well, a wiry Negro construction worker named Sam Woodson wormed through the narrow pipe and touched Benny's hand. It was cold as death. Then...
...world's biggest atom-smashers seldom smash atoms any more-except incidentally. Such mighty machines as the Berkeley Bevatron and the Brookhaven Cosmotron are used chiefly to explore the particles of which atoms are built. Last week the University of California at Berkeley put into operation a special machine for attacking atoms from a new angle. Its cost...
...Russian machine is mostly a scaled-up copy of the Berkeley Bevatron and the Cosmotron at Brookhaven National Laboratory. N.Y. It contains some new gadgets, but uses no novel principle. Most notable thing about it is its enormous size. Its ring of magnets is 184 ft. in diameter and contains 36,000 tons of steel. According to U.S. Physicist Luis Alvarez, who visited Dubna last spring, Russian physicists joke a little about the amount of steel. The Iron Curtain, they told him, was melted down to provide...
...Russians will hold the high-energy title until the completion, probably in 1960, of the 25-Bev machine now under construction at Brookhaven. It will be big (840 ft. in diameter), but its greatly increased power will be made possible by a new principle called "strong focusing." It will need 500 tons of copper and only a small amount of steel...
...University of Michigan and Tihiro Ohkawa of Tokyo University, told their colleagues about a new and cataclysmic kind of atom smasher. The most powerful one in operation at present is the Bevatron at Berkeley (6 billion electron volts), and a 25-Bev monster is under construction at Brookhaven National Laboratory on Long Island. These are rather puny little gadgets, think Jones and Ohkawa. The way to get real power is to force head-on collisions between high-speed particles...