Word: plante
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cairo to take the word to President Nasser. Next day Cairo's press blared that the Soviet Union had granted Egypt a $175 million loan, and that Industry Minister Aziz Sidky would leave shortly for Moscow to negotiate detailed projects for building docks, drydocks and an automobile assembly plant, plus developing minerals and supplying tractors and machinery. "This is what Russian aid will do for you," explained Al Akhbar in a fine burst of reckless accounting. "It will find you and your son a job because it will help our five-year plan make 500,000 more jobs...
...reactor "goes critical," a flow of 508° F. water will pass through the core chamber, starting a nuclear process that eventually will produce steam to generate electric power. After three years and $110 million spent by the U.S. and the Duquesne Light Co. on the Ohio Valley plant, the nation's sluggish private atomic energy program will show its first practical results...
...high cost of Shippingport is due greatly to the need to test several versions of similar equipment to find out which is best for commercial power production. But for the AEC and dozens of private subcontractors that built it, Shippingport will provide the first really thorough investigation of nuclear plant safety-the main drawback so far to production for profit...
...ever escapes, its 100,000 ft. of pipes are linked by 20,000 welds, each checked by X ray and coded to tell which worker made it on what date. The ordinary safeguards against the escape of radioactive rays are backstopped by the 5-ft.-thick walls of the plant...
...lowered into place as slowly as three-thousandths of an inch at a time, a job that took 24 hours. But for Navy Rear Admiral Hyman G. Rickover, who closely checked the building of the reactor at Shippingport (and of the Nautilus), the whole point was to make the plant "safe enough for my son to play in." To persistent questions from businessmen about the high costs, Rickover has one stock answer: "You people are asking for conception without...