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Ironically enough, Dean Hanford had just prepared a message warning of "severance of connection" for fracas participation: and the night before it was to be published, the disturbance took place...
...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...
...next step was taken in 1935, this time by University Hall. Dean A. Chester Hanford had Manter Hall and the University Tutors legally enjoined from selling copies of lecture notes, on the grounds that lectures notes, on the grounds that lectures are the common-law property of the University...
Radiation-Proof Robots. The Hanford plutonium plant at Richland, Wash, is even lonelier. The great reactors themselves are virtually uninhabited. Nothing about them moves; nothing changes visibly. A good part of the Columbia River flows through the cooling ducts, but its passage makes almost no sound...
...Hanford separates plutonium from spent uranium, and this must be done by remote control, to avoid death by radiation. Here is a nightmarish glimpse of a future world of machines. The General Electric Co. people who run the plant have developed remote-control apparatus until it can do almost everything. It can knock down, service and put together whole production units that have grown fiercely radioactive. Sometimes the human operatives watch the job through three feet of special glass, sometimes through periscopes, sometimes by means of stereoscopic television. In the latter case, they can work from miles away; the radiation...