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...famous Smyth Report (Atomic Energy for Military Purposes) appears this ominous sentence: "The fission products produced in one day's run of a 100,000-kilowatt chain-reacting pile might be sufficient to make a large area uninhabitable." The Smyth Report appeared in 1945. Since then, "radiological poisons" have hardly been mentioned, much less evaluated publicly as a military weapon...
...lone 7½-kilowatt transmitter is only a whisper compared to the worldwide 58-station network of Voice of America. But RFE, a branch of the National Committee for a Free Europe founded last year by a group of private U.S. citizens, expects to make up in pungency for its lack of volume. Explains Banker Frank Altschul, chairman of RFE: "Unhampered by diplomatic restrictions, we can slant our programs in a more definitely anti-Soviet way than the Voice...
Lindseth increased C.E.I.'s capacity to 984,000 kilowatts, almost double its prewar level. Last week, just before he left Cleveland for the convention, Lindseth announced that C.E.I. would double its capacity again, with a new $100 million, 1,000,000-kilowatt installation, scheduled for completion after...
Hafstad regretted that he could not give his audience the latest figures on the cost and efficiency of reactors. Keeping on the safe side of security, he estimated that four large research reactors cost $2,688 for every kilowatt of power they produce, while a coal-burning power plant, he pointed out, costs $133 a kilowatt. Nuclear reactors will have to improve enormously before they can compete economically with conventional power producers. At present they are so far behind that a private company would be crazy to put any money into them...
...July a spectacular sheet of white water, a quarter of a mile wide, 17 feet thick and twice as high as Niagara, spills over the top of Grand Coulee Dam. In time, this overflow will be channeled off to irrigate half a million acres of desert without sacrificing one kilowatt of electrical output. Only then will the New Deal's resettlement dream come true, in the blossoming in the sagebrush of 12,800 one-family farms (to keep the farms small, the U.S. will refuse to sell any one owner water for more than approximately 160 acres...