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SOLICITING STRONG SCHOLAR to head top university. Boasts 42 Nobel prizewinners, including Faculty Members Saul Bellow and Milton Friedman; achievements range from development of nuclear fission to compiling a 21-volume Assyrian dictionary. The 2,500 undergraduates (2 to 1 male) are studious and competitive, as are the 5,500 graduate students in the professional schools and graduate courses. New president must be adroit manager. Under Incumbent John Wilson, retiring soon at 65, university balanced $255 million budget by trimming faculty slightly and raising tuition; but drive to increase $272 million endowment lags. Salary modest (low $40,000 range...
John A. Wheeler, LL.D., nuclear physicist who helped to develop the first general theory of nuclear fission...
Invisible Springs. Compared with the difficulties of controlling fusion, producing energy from nuclear fission is relatively simple. In fission-which occurs in A-bomb explosions and powers today's nuclear plants-a speeding neutron is used to split the atomic nucleus of a heavy element like uranium into the nuclei of one or more lighter elements. In the process, more neutrons are given off. But the mass of the resulting nuclei and neutrons is somewhat less than the mass of the original nucleus; the missing matter-as predicted by the famed Einstein equation E=mc2-has been converted into...
...dirty, but steady. The fading structures of a decaying city are the great mineral mines and hardware shops of the nation. Break them down and re-use the parts. Coal is too difficult to dig up and transport to give us energy in the amounts we need, nuclear fission is judged to be too dangerous, the technical breakthrough toward nuclear fusion that we hoped for never took place, and solar batteries are too expensive to maintain on the earth's surface in sufficient quantity...
...irresponsible governments or bomb-building terrorists, Carter has already chopped $200 million from Ford's leftover budget for the development of advanced breeder reactors, which produce bomb-grade plutonium even as they produce energy. The Schlesinger program will call for a modest acceleration in the building of present fission reactors and will place great emphasis on safety precautions. But it will also call for a standardized design intended to speed construction. Owing to a maze of regulations and community misgivings, it now takes up to eleven years to build a reactor in the U.S., v. only...