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Fortunately, no small nation can enter the race unless it has a highly developed electronics and metallurgical base as well as a solid corps of expert physicists, technicians and weapons engineers. To produce four or five Hiroshima-type bombs a year, it needs a big 70-megawatt reactor and, to keep it going at full blast, 100 tons of uranium ore (which is now in oversupply throughout the world and may in time be available on the open market). This would assure the aspiring nuclear power a yearly output of some 20 kilograms of plutonium, the raw material for bombs...
...tourists. The repair yards of the Hong Kong & Whampoa Dock Co. hum with ships coming and going. Passengers crowd the Star Ferry Co. boats and the Peak Tramways' cable cars, which provide the most spectacular 10? rides in the world. China Light & Power Co. is adding four 60-megawatt turbines at a total cost of $34 million...
...office on Calcutta's fashionable Park Street last week, fluorescent lights burned late into the night as a team of engineers bent over their drawing boards rushing to complete plans for Asia's biggest steam power plant. By 1964 the 300 megawatt Bandel power station is scheduled to supply badly needed electricity to Calcutta's industrial belt. But almost as significant to the Indian economy as the $54 million project itself is the fact that the engineers designing it are all Indians-members of Kuljian Corp. of India, the first Indian-run consulting engineering firm capable...