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Reactor. Industrial use of atomic energy is 20 years away, said Dr. Lyle B. Borst, boss of the Government's atomic project at Brookhaven, Long Island...
...spite of such mishaps, scientists have so far kept things pretty well under control. Recently they got together at the Atomic Energy Commission's Brookhaven (Long Island) Laboratory to do some long-range worrying. The Associated Press's Howard Blakeslee listened in and last week reported some of their worries...
...Lesser Worries. The Brookhaven conferees heard some schemes for safe shipment (to researchers and doctors) of radioactive material. Examples: make shipping boxes too big to be carried in a pocket (too close to the body); put horns on boxes to prevent their being cradled against the stomach (a vulnerable spot...
...Brookhaven, L.I., a dragline excavator manned by a nuclear physicist broke ground last week for the first chain-reacting pile to be built in the U.S. in peacetime.* Financed by a $10 million Government appropriation, it will be the heart of the great Brookhaven National Laboratory, to be built by the U.S. as a common experiment center for the nuclear scientists of Eastern universities. Other atomic giants will soon cluster around it: cyclotrons, synchrotrons, a Van de Graaff electrostatic generator-all the monstrous machines of the Atomic...
...Brookhaven's pile is designed primarily for research; it will produce little or no explosive plutonium. From its graphite and uranium interior will come a more plentiful supply of the radioactive isotopes which are already transforming U.S. science. Through its thick shield will shoot the neutrons which are powerful research tools. An elaborate "hot laboratory" will study the dangerous substances and radiations coming from the pile...