Word: fissioned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Playing and working in Phoenix, Ariz., energetic Inventor Lee de Forest, 82, one of radio's and TV's most illustrious ancestors predicted: 1) the world will run out of fissionable power-producing uranium within several hundred years; 2) a successful fusion reactor, i.e., a tamed H-bomb type of power generator, will never be achieved; 3) it matters not, because solar energy will eventually outshine both fission and fusion sources as man's chief power supply. These,matters settled, Dr. de Forest sounded off on the horrors of present-day radio and TV advertising. "I wish...
...years after Congress voted to open the field of nuclear fission to private enterprise, U.S. industry committed itself to spend more than $150 million on five atomic power plants. But not one private nuclear power plant is under construction. The big obstacle: lack of liability insurance...
Rain & Fogged Film. To find out whether the air mass actually traveled around the earth, the Japanese wrote to scientists along its theoretical route asking if they had seen any signs of it. Confirmation came from Paris, where radioactive rain had fallen. The fission products from faraway Nevada had also fogged photographic film as they drifted over Europe. Dr. Miyake is sure that the rest of the trajectory mapped out for the "tracer" is also accurate. The north-and-south waviness of the route is characteristic of the high altitude winds that blow around the earth in north temperate latitudes...
...from the restricted data category, including such areas as fuel element fabrication and processing techniques," and keep secret only the military applications of atomic energy. As it is, private enterprise lacks the information on which it can make intelligent decisions, e.g., a utility might invest heavily in a nuclear-fission power plant when AEC is sitting on the facts about a better system...
...reason for Europe's slow atomic progress is its political fission. Even in trying to get together, Europe has almost as many international atomic-energy committees as it does atomic-power plants...