Word: cockcroft
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Three Doughnuts. Britain's ZETA (Zero-Energy Thermonuclear Assembly), which was shown last week by Sir John Cockcroft at Harwell atomic laboratory, looks like three 10-ft. doughnuts laced together like links of a chain. The central horizontal torus (scientific word for a doughnut shape) is a ring-shaped aluminum vacuum chamber with a 39-in. bore. The two vertical doughnuts linked into it are the iron cores of a transformer. When a small amount of deuterium gas is fed into the evacuated torus and a heavy electric current is shot through the transformer, an even heavier current (this...
...John Douglas Cockcroft, director of the Atomic Energy Research Establishment at Harwell, England, outlined a program for nuclear power development that will halve the cost of electricity in Britain within the next five years. He delivered the first Morris Loeb Lecture at Burr Hall last night...
...Cockcroft also stated that the United States' nuclear power plants will not be producing a comparable percentage of our electrical energy needs until 1975. He explained that power from American coal and oil reserves will remain economically competitive with nuclear power for another 15 years...
...John Douglas Cockcroft, director of the Atomic Energy Research Establishment at Harwell, will give the Morris Loeb Lecture on "The Course of Development of Nuclear Power" tonight at 8:30 in Allston Burr Hall B. He will be presented by President Pusey...
Consolation for Physicists. At the Oxford meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, Nobel Prizewinner Sir John Cockcroft announced a bit of long-range good news. He was sure, said Sir John, that long before the world exhausts its supply of uranium fuel, the energy of "the fusion of light elements (as in the hydrogen bomb) can be turned from destructive to peaceful uses. If this is true, the human' race need not worry about its energy supply for a very long time...