Word: fissions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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General Electric Co. started building the first pilot plant to convert nuclear fission to electrical energy, although the use of atomic power to generate electricity on a commercial scale seemed at least a decade off. On U.S. railroads, the diesel revolution was in full spin; of 1,159 new locomotives put in service during the first ten months, 1,082 were diesels. Jet engines 4 swooshed into their own; of the 3,661 new military planes ordered during the year, 2,209 were jet-powered...
...this might look like a hinted threat by Tito to turn to the West. The West, however, kept its fingers crossed. The latest issue of the Cominform journal, for the first time since the Tito fission in June, had no article attacking Tito...
...with Geiger counters and other instruments, and tell the Army & Navy which areas were too "hot" to be handled safely by their investigators. When, for example, he tested the atmosphere underneath the deadly cloud canopy, his instruments hardly turned a hair-a "boiling updraft" had already swept all floating fission products' high above him. But when he headed down toward the target ships, the Geiger counters "sang" like mad. "Each [ship] seemed to catch us in a beam, as though from a searchlight...
Oppenheimer and other U.S. "colleagues," congratulating them on their "fine job" in achieving nuclear fission. To Oppenheimer, there was nothing very remarkable or shocking about this: it simply illustrated how international science has always been...
Atomic Power. General Electric Co. announced that it will build an experimental atomic power plant to be completed in two to five years. In the plant G.E. hopes to use heat from atomic fission to run electric generating equipment. The builder: the Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory, which G.E. operates for the Atomic Energy Commission. The place: a secret...