Word: fissioned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Five emperors, a dozen kings and a score of minor dynasts have vanished in the wars, revolutions and other dislocations of the 20th century. Britain's empire, too, is diminished, yet neither hot war nor cold war, nuclear nor social fission has tarnished the bright gold of the British crown. In an age that tends to reject ritual, scoff at virtue and call magic coincidence the crown that was set this week on the head of Elizabeth II was more generally accepted because better understood, better loved because more respected, than it had ever been before...
...Cumberland station, North American's plant will also be able to produce atomic fuel, i.e., plutonium. But its main purpose will be the study of practical production of electric power. Liquid metal (probably sodium) circulating through the reactor will absorb the tremendous heat generated by atomic fission. Piped through a water boiler, the superheated metal will produce steam. The steam, in turn, will drive a conventional turbogenerator...
...curve of decay, plotted on a chart, normally consists of portions of two straight lines. On nine occasions in 1951 and early 1952, Holter & Glasscock collected samples that gave far from normal curves. Study showed that they were the decay curves of very complex mixtures of radioactive substances. The fission products remaining after an atomic explosion fit this description exactly...
Most of the "unnatural" samples came after U.S. atomic tests in Nevada, but some of them were collected in Montana when no U.S. fission products could have been in the air. The radioactive material presumably came from the Russian explosion announced by President Truman on October 3, 1951. Another sample may have come from a second Russian test a few weeks later...
...radios on the side to meet expenses. During the war he joined the FBI, was assigned to the important anti-sabotage unit which kept a watch on the Communist cell at the University of California's radiation laboratory in Berkeley, where basic research was under way on atomic fission. After the war, Velde went into Republican politics in Illinois' Tazewell County, was first elected to Congress in 1948. His FBI record helped his campaign...