Word: mass
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even when plutonium is stored in a carefully designed container, workers live close to catastrophe. Each small chunk of plutonium must be kept a respectful distance from the others, lest they combine to form the critical mass that sets off an atomic reaction. Even a human body in the wrong place can reflect enough neutrons into a chunk of plutonium to set off a chain reaction that could kill everyone in the lab with a blast of radiation...
...sharp first pulse has long been a puzzle. But last week Dr. Arthur Kantrowitz of the Avco Research Laboratory at Everett, Mass, reported that he and his scientists had successfully simulated this solar phenomenon in the laboratory, and offered an explanation...
...when Gold came to Cambridge, Mass, to teach at Harvard, he found that Dr. Kantrowitz and a team of Avco scientists were attempting to prove in the laboratory that his waves can really exist. Their plan was to build a laboratory-scale model of a solar eruption...
...companies of firetrucks with 25 men blocked off Mass. Ave. for an hour yesterday morning fighting a small fire in the basement of Leavitt and Peirce. Firemen clambered all over the buildings opposite Wigglesworth although the blaze was confined to the cellar...
Michael Graney '60, of Leverett House and Norwood, Mass., was awarded the Angier Hockey Trophy at a recent informal meeting of the hockey squad. The trophy is presented annually to the player showing the greatest improvement during the season...