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...City of Pluto. The original pile at Chicago had been a ticklish business, but the giant piles at Hanford were studies in unexplored dangers. Theory warned that as soon as they started working, they would generate floods of deadly radiation and produce unknown radioactive elements, most of them fiendishly poisonous: These effects could conceivably be so powerful and so long-lasting that no living thing could approach a pile which had once been in operation...
...deadly unknowns escaped. The cooling water was radioactive. It had to be impounded and exhausted of radioactivity before going back to the river. The wind blowing over the chemical plant picked up another load of peril for the stacks gave off a radioactive gas. The City of Pluto was a place of grim possibilities...
Rigid precautions guarded the health of the workers. They all carried small electroscopes or bits of photographic film for nightly tests to show the amount of radiation to which each had been exposed. A gadget called "Sneezy" measured radioactive dust in the air; "Pluto" watched lab desks and instruments. Clothing was carefully checked. Devices rang an alarm when a radioactive worker came near...
...powerful allies who forged his victory, Italy lies prostrate, the battleground of foreign armies; Germany, no longer able to do him any real good, still has the means to work him grievous harm. In an economic sense he is living on the measured bounty of the "Western Pluto-democracies," which he once scorned for their weakness...
...headed Teuton some ABC's of Britain: that Britons, including titled Britons, contsidered Nazi Germany much more dangerous than Soviet Russia; that, even if the King and the Dukes desired peace with Nazi Germany, the British would never stand for it. But Hess could not believe that the "plutos" of a "pluto-democracy" would ally themselves with Communist Russia; that the leaders of a major world power like Great Britain would allow the public any say about national policy...