Word: gamma
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...would be far better (and cheaper) to get electricity direct. How? Piles give their energy in a snarl of assorted forms: zig-zagging neutrons, high-speed beta particles, heat, light, gamma rays. Confined within the pile's thick shield, they all simmer down to heat, the most "degraded" form of energy. It takes the costly boiler-turbine-generator combination to "elevate" the heat into usable electricity...
Reconvertibles. In Washington, Veterans Administrator Bradley announced the VA adviser on women's affairs had closed up shop: women veterans have turned out to be no problem. In Tulsa, nostalgic ex-service women at Tulsa University named their sorority Beta Khaki Gamma...
...First 75 Million. "When this moves in over a city you have to evacuate the people right away or they will die from gamma radiation. You couldn't clean the area. The fissionable material would get into the water-into everything. It would get into next year's crop...
Newest theory: blame radioactivity. Many rocks are slightly radioactive, shooting thin trickles of gamma rays through themselves and their surrounding formations. When continued long enough (say, a million years), the cumulative effect is considerable...
...encouraging factor is probably atomic energy. Chief trouble with earlier death rays was that no known source of radiation was strong enough to kill at a distance. But atom bombs do kill by radiation, mostly heat and gamma rays. If a method is developed to concentrate nuclear radiations into a narrow beam, death rays may be available to enliven World...