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...commonest kind of radioisotope is any element (gold, cobalt, strontium) that has been placed inside a reactor long enough to become radioactive, i.e., to shoot off alpha, beta or gamma rays. Then, when these rays hit another object, their speed or intensity changes; by using Geiger counters and other devices to detect the rays, technicians can learn many filings' about the objects under bombardment. And when isotopes are added to liquids, their flow can easily be followed by Geiger counters...
...read in Life magazine that the government bombards animals with gamma rays. They imprison monkeys and mice in cramped cages. They starve cats to death and chill dogs in freezing tanks of water. I ask you--do such practices promote human welfare...
...agonizing hours wore on, the groggy, red-eyed diggers received atomic-age assistance. From the AEC's nearby Brookhaven Laboratories came a set of tempered-steel tubes (used as gamma-ray shields) that telescoped one inside the other like a nest of cups; they were trip-hammered into the loft. wall that separated Benny from his rescuers. At 7:32 p.m., 23 hours and 48 minutes after Benny had plunged down the well, a wiry Negro construction worker named Sam Woodson wormed through the narrow pipe and touched Benny's hand. It was cold as death. Then...
...particularly obnoxious since universally respected figures such as the Pope and Dr. Schweitzer have been persuaded to intervene. How they can allow themselves to be taken in by the inaccurate propaganda of the friends of Russia is hard to understand." The facts are, said Cherwell, that "the number of gamma rays we get from the radioactive materials in the walls of our houses is 50 times greater than the amount to which we are exposed by the nuclear tests. If the protagonists of stopping the tests had any logic in their being, they ought to tell...
IRRADIATED COAL DUST is being tried as fuel by Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad. Working to develop atomic locomotive company found that gamma rays can dissolve crushed coal to such fineness that when it is added to diesel oil it burns up completely, increases oil's energy content. Railroad figures atomic coal dust could cut fuel bill by about It a gallon...