Word: plutonium
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...Real-estate purchases, plutonium-producing atomic energy plants, construction of Government buildings and other similar investments should be organized as self-financing authorities, like municipal bridge and tunnel authorities, and raise money from private sources. Saving: $4 billion...
...four of the five scientists who applied for the patent had escaped from Mussolini's Italy and come to the U.S. Soon both they and their patent vanished underground. The slow neutron process was the basis of the early nuclear reactors; without it, there could have been no plutonium. Enrico Fermi saw his neutrons fire up the first reactor at Chicago...
...Shane and Sudden Fear, has since become the hottest heavy in Hollywood. His face alone, as thin and cruel as a rust-pitted spade, is enough to-frighten a strong man; and to make matters worse, he seems to emit hostile energy, like something left overnight in a plutonium pile...
...already spent $250,000 investigating commercial uses of atomic energy, estimates that it would cost $60 million to build a 125,000-kw. atomic power plant (about one-tenth of the power used by greater Boston). Of this sum, $44 million would be the cost of a reactor for plutonium production and could come from the Government; the rest would be for the heat-transfer units, turbines, etc. for the power plant, and might come from private industry...
...basing the price of power on the $16 million capitalization, Thomas estimates that power could be produced for as low as .003 cents per kw-h compared to .008 cents per kw-h for coal power. Since the return from electric sales would cut down the cost of making plutonium, the Government would get it cheaper than at present. Other businessmen, such as Detroit Edison's President Walker L. Cisler, insist that they need no Government help. As soon as Congress lets in private industry, Detroit Edison and 25 companies now joined with it in studying commercial atomic power...