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...neat theory was destroyed when the AEC announced a preliminary analysis. That report indicated that the Chinese test used "a fission device employing U-235." Unless the Russians in friendlier years got the Lop Nor bomb work started with a goodly amount of U-235, the Chinese must somehow have scraped up the electricity to make the stuff, or less likely, invented a new and better process...
Damaged Spots. The General Electric dating method, which was developed with Air Force backing, depends on the fact that nearly all rocks, including tektites and impactites, contain small traces of uranium. The uranium atoms split, at a slow, known rate and the fission fragments damage the glassy material in which they are embedded. The damaged spots are microscopic, but they can be made visible by a special etching technique. When they are carefully counted and compared with the amount of uranium present, those spots tell how long they have been accumulating and the date when the rock solidified...
...simple fact is that human group behavior is complex and variegated. Lay language often does not do justice to this quality. Popular translations of sociological literature can frequently be compared to the difference between Disney's exploding pingpong balls on mousetraps and an original essay in fission by Albert Einstein...
...there is potential danger in any nuclear plant. After it has run for a while, the fuel in its core (Con Ed plans to use 113 tons of uranium oxide) is contaminated with fiercely radioactive fission products. If this unpleasant stuff got spread around the countryside by any sort of explosion, it would do as much harm as the fallout from an atom bomb. Millions of people live within a few miles of Con Ed's projected installation. To reduce this danger to a minimum, the plant proposed for the Borough of Queens, on New York's East...
...Fact & Fission. Nuclear power plants are also growing bigger. Six years ago, the first commercial reactor at Shippingport, Pa., generated 60,000 kw. Last week Niagara Mohawk Power announced that it will build a 500,000-kw. plant in upstate New York for $100 million. New York City's Consolidated Edison plans a 1,000,000-kw. plant in Queens. Among others: > Pacific Gas & Electric's on Bodega Head, Calif. (325,000 kw.), due for 1966 completion at a $61 million cost...