Word: lemont
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this week took another step down the road toward generating electricity from atomic fuels at a cost competitive with hydroelectric power or coal power. The Argonne National Laboratory at Lemont, Ill. announced its experimental boiling water reactor, put in operation a year ago and originally designed for an output of 20,000 kw. of heat had been safely operated at a level of 50,000 kw., cutting the estimated cost of electricity per kw-h from 5.2? to 3.2?. while that price is still too high to be of commercial use, Argonne estimates that four boiling water reactors like...
This week the 31 students from 19 foreign countries will start a special seven-month course at the New School of Nuclear Science and Engineering at the Argonne National Laboratory near Lemont, Ill. For the first four months they will take courses in metallurgy, reactor physics, reactor engineering, chemistry and chemical engineering. They will also learn about the administrative problems involved in atomic research and about radiation safety. After that, they will split up into seminars. Next October another group will arrive, and in March 1956 still another...
...atomic energy program have suffered radiation burns. In 1948 four men at the Eniwetok weapons tests burned their hands when they moved contaminated material without using safety equipment which was provided . . . On June 2, 1952, four persons were exposed to a burst of radiation at Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, Ill., when a chain reaction experiment became supercritical for an instant. The exposed personnel . . . were given thorough examinations. No ill effects have been observed...