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...turning uranium into bomb-worthy plutonium, the British did not use water-cooled reactors like those at Hanford, Wash. They are too dangerous, potentially, to build near populated places, and they require a larger supply of water than was readily available in Britain. So Britain's reactors were air-cooled, with radia-torlike cooling fins around the uranium rods. There are two reactors, side by side, near Sellafield in Cumberland. Rows of great fans like outsized airplane propellers blow gales of filtered wind through holes around the uranium. After another filtering to catch radioactive dust...
...live, dine, study and tutor in the Houses today it is fitting that we as students and tutors be reminded of ho much we owe to Mr. Lowell, who was born ninety-seven years ago Sunday. A. C. Hanford, Professor of Government...
ATOMIC power for commercial use within five years is General Electric's goal. G.E. will ask the Atomic Energy Commission for permission to build an atomic power plant at AEC's Hanford Works near Richland, Wash. The multimillion-dollar plant would produce plutonium as well as electric power. Said G.E.'s President Ralph J. Cordiner: "The most significant [industry] pronouncement . . . since the invention of the incandescent lamp...
Price didn't think Westinghouse could learn anything running plants like Hanford or Oak Ridge; they had become management, not development, projects. "Our engineers advised us," says Price, "that naval propulsion was likely to be the first practical application of atomic engines. In warships, the advantages of increased range would outweigh the high costs of the engine. So we went after that as the best means of gaining nuclear experience and at the same time solving practical problems which would have application in our business...
...SECRETARY OF THE ARMY: i) Iowa's Hanford MacNider, former head of the American Legion and a combat brigadier general (and D.S.C. winner) in World War II, loyal Taftman in the primary campaign; 2) New Mexico's Patrick J. Hurley, former Secretary of War (1929-33) and thrice-defeated candidate for U.S. Senator...