Word: gaseously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Energy Commission's $1.2 billion uranium-235 plant in Pike County, Ohio (TIME, Aug. 25). Though Goodyear had no experience with atomic energy, AEC figured that it did know a lot about the continuous-flow operations used in atomic energy plants, could learn the rest. When the huge, gaseous diffusion plant is completed about four years from now, Goodyear will employ only 4,000 to keep it running, will be paid a cost-plus fixed fee for the job. Meanwhile, Union Carbide & Carbon, which runs AEC's Oak Ridge and Paducah uranium plants, will teach Goodyear the ropes...
...field of productive scholarship, Nash has conducted research in the analytical, chemistry of gaseous systems, and has developed new techniques of gas analysis...
...Ohio Valley plant (cost: $1 billion) will separate explosive U-235 from natural uranium by the gaseous-diffusion process which is used at Oak Ridge and will also be used at the plant now being built near Paducah, Ky. The other AEC production plants at Hanford, Wash. and on the Savannah River are entirely different: they are reactors that make plutonium (and may make tritium for hydrogen bombs) through nuclear reactions caused by free neutrons given off by fissioning uranium. The fact that the AEC is building both kinds of plants suggests that...
...gaseous-diffusion plants, such as the new one in the Ohio Valley, may be used to make "enriched" uranium. Natural uranium contains only .7% of the fissionable isotope U-235. When it is used as fuel in a nuclear reactor it behaves rather sluggishly; the reactor, whether intended for plutonium production or as a source of energy, must be made very large. But uranium that has been enriched by removal of part of its nonfissionable U-238 is a livelier substance; it will work in smaller reactors, which will yield more energy and plutonium for their size...
...Nonsmokers, whose eyes usually catch most of the smoke from burning cigarettes in the gesturing hands of companions, learned something else from the tests: the smarting sensation is caused by gaseous ammonia rising from the burning tip. The smoker usually doesn't get it because the ammonia passes through the cigarette in a non-irritating salt form...