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Last week more than 100 atomic scientists gathered at Oak Ridge to confer not about bigger, more frightful bombs, but about the peaceful applications of nuclear physics. The big job now was to spread atomic know-how, make industrialists, educators and the public aware of the benefits atomic discoveries might bring...
Licking Secrecy. Biggest obstacle: "military security." Oak Ridge scientists complain that many atomic "secrets" are already out, that others still jealously held have no military importance. Some argue that if secrecy is continued too long, the U.S. may sit back, cocky and self-assured, while other nations catch up and forge ahead. Their recommendation: release all secrets not strictly military. Then U.S. industry, informed and excited, could climb on the atomic bandwagon and gain an unchallengeable lead, as it has in auto manufacturing...
...level policymakers who boss Oak Ridge may have come to some such decision. One sign: 35 students from universities and industrial corporations were at large last week in the tightly guarded Clinton Laboratories, learning innermost secrets from Director E. P. Wigner. Strict security rules still gag this "College...
Nuclear Knowledge." They will also gag the much larger Institute of Nuclear Studies which is being set up at Oak Ridge by an academic cooperative of Southern universities. But in a year or so, Oak Ridge scientists hope, gags will be cut away, and students can go out into the world as missionaries of the Atomic...
Present piles (at Oak Ridge, Hanford and Chicago) are kept cool, but power piles will run at high temperature. Among the reacting uranium rods of a power pile will circulate a chemically inert gas, hot as a dragon's breath, deadly with radioactivity. This will heat a conventional boiler, yielding high-pressure steam, which, the scientists hope, will not be too radioactive to use in a turbine...