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Like the original atomic-energy plant at Oak Ridge, the Pike County installation will produce U-235, the radioactive isotope whose fission can produce the energy for an atomic-bomb blast. A major step in the current U.S. program to speed up atomic stockpiling in the light of Soviet possession of the atom bomb, construction of the Pike County plant is expected to take four years, though some units of it will go into operation earlier than that...
...Sparks & Fission. The company seemed near disaster when Charles Francis Adams Jr.,* a director who was just out of the Navy as a destroyer commander, moved in as head of a rescue committee. Says Adams: "None of the other directors wanted the job because they'd lose their reputations if we went under. I, having no reputation to lose, said sure, this is a challenging situation." Adams, a Harvardman ('32) and investment banker, got Raytheon into fighting trim, soon stepped on to the bridge as executive vice president. Four years ago Laurence K. Marshall, who had founded...
Prime Minister Winston Churchill himself learned about the British research into nuclear fission for the first time only four months ago, when the Tories came back to power, although Attlee's Labor government had been working on the project for some time...
Every nuclear reactor, whether built to make plutonium or to generate power, produces radioactive "fission products." The supply of this radioactive material does not increase indefinitely because it eventually reaches a point of equilibrium where new additions are balanced by decay of the old. But the fission products must be removed and stored where they can do no damage.* "In these days of cold war," says Thirring, it is likely that "countries possessing atomic piles will store their dangerous by-products with the intention of using them to make enemy cities or industrial centers uninhabitable." He suggests that this will...
...fission products from the great plutonium reactors at Hanford, Wash. are tucked away underground in stainless steel tanks...