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...plan, as laid down by General Dynamics Corp. Chairman John Jay Hopkins, called for the "financing . . . of atomic reactors in the power-short . . . areas of the world by American private enterprise and the American Government working together with friendly national governments." Hopkins, whose firm built the atomic submarine Nautilus and is now working on a second, the Sea Wolf, warned that industrialists have played too small a part in atomic programs. Said he: "In respect to the worldwide industrial atom, the voice of American industry has been silenced...
...Navy's first atomic submarine, the $55 million Nautilus, ran into trouble .without leaving the dock. Last month a steam pipe outside the nuclear reactor burst during dockside trials. Last week the Navy learned why. The General Dynamics' Electric Boat Division, which built the Nautilus, had mixed together seamless and welded pipes in its warehouses-and in the Nautilus. Weak welded pipes burst under pressure which would have been withstood by the specified seamless piping. Moreover, it turned out that piping was mixed up too in Electric Boat's second atomic submarine, the Sea Wolf, now abuilding...
Although the new shortcut made the headlines, Canadian and U.S. scientists aboard the expedition had a more important mission: taking soundings and recording data on the Arctic seas. With accurate charts, an atomic submarine, such as the U.S.S. Nautilus (TIME, Jan. 11), could cruise from the Atlantic to the Pacific under the Arctic icepack, virtually invulnerable to search and counterattack...
...June 1815, the British brigantine Nautilus surrendered to the American sloop-of-war Peacock after a battle in the Sunda Strait. In the days of relatively unsinkable wooden ships, captures were frequent. Perhaps the most remarkable of such achievements was that of French hussars who discovered a Dutch fleet helplessly frozen in at Texel in January 1795, and captured it by a cavalry charge across...
...molten sodium-potassium alloy. Still another will have a novel gimmick. Its cooling water will be allowed to boil, and the steam generated will be used directly to drive a 5,000-kw. turbine. This cuts out the conventional heat exchanger used in the reactor of the submarine Nautilus to generate nonradioactive steam. Dr. Smyth did not say so, but the turbine will probably become so radioactive that it cannot be approached by humans...