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...oldfashioned, using graphite as moderator, and ordinary water for-cooling. Its operating temperature, 180° C (356° F.), is low and therefore inefficient for power production. Soviet Delegation Chief Vasily Emelyanov practically admitted that the reactor is a dual purpose one whose primary job is making plutonium for nuclear explosives...
...months ago Chemist Glenn Seaborg talked warmly of the compensations of his calling: "Stable employment, reasonably good pay, and considerably less pressure and worry than many other groups-such as educators." Sometime in August, Seaborg, who won a Nobel Prize with Physicist Edwin McMillan for discovering plutonium (the pair also discovered berkelium, californium, four other elements), will leave his post as associate director of the University of California's Radiation Lab at Berkeley to become a fulltime educator. New job: chancellor of the university's Berkeley campus (18,981 students), replacing Clark Kerr, now president of the university...
...check this theory, Dr. Kohman suggests, is more thorough analysis of tektites. Tektites that came from a stellar system much younger than the solar system should, for example, contain traces of short-lived elements (e.g., plutonium 244 and curium 247) that have long been extinct on earth...
Since data on U.S. plutonium output and estimated future needs are top secret, neither side in the dispute could lay out its case for the public to judge. But Joint Committee members considered the evidence so overwhelming that they found the Administration stand "a great mystery," as Washington's Democratic Senator Henry M. ("Scoop") Jackson put it. Actually, there was no mystery: faced with an embarrassingly huge deficit in fiscal 1959, the Budget Bureau wanted to postpone a third reactor until the need was unmistakably obvious...
...with farm programs costing the Federal Government $6 billion a year, and veterans' benefits $5 billion, plutonium production hardly seemed-especially in a week when the U.S. had to land troops in the Middle East-the best place for economizing...