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Last week Dr. Edward U. Condon, Chief of the U.S. National Bureau of Standards, told the Paris conference that the job had been done-by transmutation. Pure gold (atomic weight 197), placed in an atomic pile and exposed to a storm of neutrons, is transmuted into a single mercury isotope with atomic weight 198. This one-isotope mercury gives off green light waves of extraordinary uniformity, as measuring sticks. They are much better than cadmium light; they are vastly better than the meter bar. Scientists using mercury light should be able to measure with an accuracy of one part...
Another atomic hint came from Atomic Energy Commissioner Lewis L. Strauss, speaking at the University of New Hampshire. He mentioned "packaged" nuclear power. It might be possible, he said, to place material in a uranium pile and make it highly radioactive by bombarding it with neutrons. Then it could be taken out and used as a kind of atomic storage battery to run a power plant...
...softball games), and appearing three times a week on a radio program on which he invited voters to send him all their personal complaints. He hammered away at inflation, proposed a "voluntary" price-control plan. Governor Shannon still figured to win. Chester Bowles's ambition was to pile up a vote impressive enough to give him a share in taking over the receivership of the Democratic Party...
...atomic age, you can't be too careful about your neighbors. When an atomic pile is at work, it releases radioactive gases (invisible but deadly) that are sure to get around the neighborhood. This problem has been worrying Brookhaven National Laboratory, which is building a pile. It has also worried nervous Long Islanders who live near the laboratory...
When Brookhaven's pile begins to work, radioactive gases will be released, like the smoke, from the top of a tall stack. Since gas behaves about the same as smoke, the scientists will figure out in advance how to operate their pile safely-and how to keep its radioactive gases out of Long Island society...