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Died. Lars Onsager, 72, longtime Yale chemistry professor whose work on heat transfer, now known as the fourth law of thermodynamics, won him the 1968 Nobel Prize; of a heart attack; in Coral Gables, Fla. Before World War II, Onsager proposed a gaseous diffusion process to produce the rare uranium isotope needed to construct the atomic bomb; it js now the standard method used to manufacture uranium...
...empty lots where our age-mates, back from the service, are pounding the pavements, where young women strangely haggard work the night shift and Dunkin Donuts, where men with lunchpails punch in at Finast and Fenton Shoe, where old women on their way to our dining halls slip off gaseous buses onto the ice before dawn? What are we doing here? How shall we live? Are we somehow part of their burden? Will we always stand over against them...
After attending about 100 solid hours of meetings on these matters over the past two months, consuming literally millions of written words on the intricate issues, Ford knew his subject matter better than his critics. That is considered unsportsmanlike conduct in these gaseous climes...
...natural element uranium contains only .7% of the isotope U-235. It must be enriched to 90% for use in nuclear warheads, a vastly expensive and complex process. A typical plant using a gaseous diffusion method covers about 90 acres, uses about 400 million gallons of recirculating cooling water per day, requires 1,300 megawatts of continuous electrical power (enough to meet the needs of a city of about 600,000) and costs about $2 billion to build. Only the U.S., the Soviet Union, Britain, France and China have such gargantuan processing plants; they thus have been able to exercise...
...created externally by bombardment of charged particles from the sun hitting the atmosphere-or it may be left over from an epoch when the spin was faster. The presence of an atmosphere is equally difficult to explain because the planet's gravity is too weak to prevent a gaseous envelope from escaping into space. But, says Project Scientist James A. Dunne, some gases could be continually trapped from the stream of solar particles or released from within the planet by the slow decay of radioactive elements...