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...Quick and the Dead (Thurs. 8 p.m., NBC). A dramatic series on nuclear fission, starring Helen Hayes, Bob Hope and Paul Lukas...
...current issue the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, for once feeling no such fears, carries an article which describes in detail and with figures the basic principles of the hydrogen bomb. It tells how the speeding fission fragments of exploding uranium will impart high velocity to light atoms around them, causing them to "fuse," and release enormous amounts of energy...
Both uranium and hydrogen bombs will leave some radioactive residues. If a uranium bomb is exploded near the ground (as the first one at Alamogordo), the "fission products" make a small area radioactive for a long time. But most of the fission products rise high in the atmosphere. When the bomb is exploded 1,80b ft. above the ground (as at Hiroshima), virtually all the fission products are carried up, where they do no damage...
...better get a move on." Lilienthal set four years from now as the date for a practical demonstration of electric power production, 10 years before we get a bigger, but still high-cost plant, and 25 years before a "substantial part" of our electrical energy could be produced by fission. Could this be speeded up? "That's something I'd better not comment on," but there was the impression that something could be done...
Last week the laboratory showed off some new and weird equipment designed to make isotope production both faster and safer. The isotopes are made by a chain-reacting pile in a pale green, blocky building. Some of them are fission products that accumulate in the pile's uranium fuel. Others are formed in aluminum cans of raw material "cooked" by the pile's neutrons...