Word: kilowatter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Baruch, U.S. representative on the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission, a group of scientists announced last week that atomic power for industrial use would cost only 23% more than power from coal at the current U.S. East Coast price of $7 a ton to power companies. A 75,000-kilowatt pile of the Hanford type, adapted for power production and using natural uranium, could be built...
Question for the Future. Italians were trying to help themselves. The nation's heavy industry was at a near 80% of capacity; rail transport was approaching normal; repaired harbors were handling a swelling flow of exports-$70,000,000 since Jan. 1; electric kilowatt-hours in the first four months this year were one million over the same period last year; the wheat crop, six million tons, was four-fifths of the prewar average. The 1946 raw silk estimate was the highest in history. Even inventors were busy: in Milan last week an auto-plane rolled at 40 m.p.h...
Still, a naval atomic engine would have great advantages. A pound of pure natural uranium (U-238) in a pile produces 20-400 kilowatt-hours of usable energy. An atomic-powered ship could cruise almost indefinitely without refueling, could dispense with oil storage tanks and its great weight of fuel. Engineers guesstimate that uranium as fuel would be no more costly than oil or coal...
...imprisonment for violation of the Lea ("anti-Petrillo") bill recently passed by Congress (TIME, April 15). The bill forbids any attempt to compel radio broadcasters to hire more people than they need. Contemptuous of the law of the land, Caesar ruled that Chicago's station WAAF, a one-kilowatt independent, should double its uncomplaining staff of three record librarians. When the station demurred, Caesar informed the three union members that they were henceforth on strike...
...power plant, then will drop 300 feet to another. The briny river's flow will be limited to about 1,000 cubic feet per second, to match evaporation from the Dead Sea. But its drop will be so great that it will generate 560,000,000 kilowatt hours per year. (TVA total: 10 billion...