Word: pilings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ordinary steel rings are put in the AEC's atomic pile at Oak Ridge and "cooked" for a month in neutrons. The process changes part of their normal iron into radioactive iron 59. Packed in 300-lb. lead cases, the "hot" rings are shipped to Richmond, Calif, and stored in a thick-walled closet (called "the cave") in the Research Corp.'s basement...
...atomic plants now abuilding will be safeguarded carefully. The pile at Brookhaven National Laboratory, Long Island, 65 miles east of Manhattan, will operate only when there is enough wind to dilute its radioactive cooling gases below the danger point. Elaborate studies are being made by the U.S. Geological Survey to make sure that no radioactive wastes get into Long Island's water supply. The "hot" uranium slugs from Brookhaven's pile will be put underground to keep them from making trouble...
...White is an up-from-office-boy railroad veteran of 44 years, who had been vice president of three other roads before joining the Nickel Plate six months ago. In 1948, the Nickel Plate's first independent year after separation from the Chesapeake & Ohio, he helped President Davin pile up a gross of $109 million and net of $15 million, greatest in the Nickel Plate's history...
...Minneapolis of Norwegian parents, he worked his way through the University of Minnesota as a telephone maintenance man. In April 1939, young Dr. Hafstad got in on the ground floor of nuclear energy by publishing, with associates, the first paper on "delayed neutrons." Delayed neutrons make an atomic pile possible: they allow time for adjusting its speed of reaction...
...production line. While walking some guests through Chevrolet's forge plant recently, he stopped to watch a young Negro feed long, red-hot rods into a machine which twisted them into knee-action coil springs. "Look," Wilson nudged a visitor. "He's going to let the rods pile up to show us how fast he can work. See how he gives the ends a little twist? He's our best man on this job because he's got rhythm in his soul." Then, admiringly, Wilson stepped up and told...