Word: nuclear
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...actually survived the fall intact. Some of the TNT detonators on the other two had exploded on impact and ruptured the shell casing, permitting some radioactive plutonium and uranium to scatter over 18 acres in the impact area. However, there was no cause for alarm, Spain's Nuclear Energy Board quickly assured. Of the 2,000 "potentially exposed" people in the area, 1,800 had been examined thus far, and none had received a dangerous dose. What is more, added the board, "there is not the slightest risk in eating meat, fish, vegetables from the zone, or of drinking...
...fill the space between, so that the words "eternity" and "infinity" maintain their literal meaning in an unending past and future? Somewhere out in the vast reaches of space and time, there are sources of energy as yet unimagined by man-unbridled physical reactions that dwarf any conceivable nuclear explosion...
...necessity of explaining the prodigious outpouring of energy from such small bodies has generated some fantastic intellectual inventions, some of which may yet turn out to be accurate. Fred Hoyle and a California Institute of Technology colleague, William Fowler, have suggested that quasars might well be massive superstars whose nuclear fires have died down because of the depletion of their hydrogen fuel. Such stars, they say, would begin to collapse, contracting under their own gravity. And the tremendous energy released by matter falling toward the star centers might well be of a magnitude that could explain a quasar...
Schmidt was warmly accepted in Pasadena. "He was an ideal product of the Dutch school," says Jesse Greenstein. "In this country we tend to stress atomic and nuclear physics in astronomy. Schmidt came to us with more classical training. He had, and still has good sharp eyes at the telescope, an old-fashioned virtue in science...
...sales of $29.4 million. As with gold, the Government was the sole legal customer and fixed the price; besides, the Administration announced that its need for uranium would be satisfied by 1970. But a new contract with the Atomic Energy Commission allows the company to sell uranium commercially, and nuclear-minded private utilities promise a rich future market. Nevertheless, Homestake is diversifying further, has lately entered partnerships to produce potash (for fertilizer) in Saskatchewan, iron in Australia, lead and zinc in Missouri, and is studying a copper mining investment in Mauritania...