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Like Britain's Cumberland station, North American's plant will also be able to produce atomic fuel, i.e., plutonium. But its main purpose will be the study of practical production of electric power. Liquid metal (probably sodium) circulating through the reactor will absorb the tremendous heat generated by atomic fission. Piped through a water boiler, the superheated metal will produce steam. The steam, in turn, will drive a conventional turbogenerator...
...beyond the curtain of hand-wringing and eye-rolling to establish some measure of the H-bomb's magnitude. The TNT blockbuster of World War II, they reported, weighed about eleven tons, and could destroy a square city block. The old-fashioned atomic bombs (i.e., uranium and plutonium) are measured in "kilo-tons," or thousands of tons of TNT; the Hiroshima blast rated 20 kilotons. The H-bomb, by comparison, is measured by the "megaton"-a million tons...
...Plutonium & Batteries. When Flader took delivery of the Doodlebugs, he got a warning never to open the case. Its plutonium-tipped antennas and delicate electronic mechanism might cause an explosion. Guided by the machine's lights, Flader sank $166,000 in oil land leases, but found...
Reporter Cahn took the results of his investigation to the police and FBI. Ge Bauer and Newton were quickly picked up and released on bail to await trial for fraud. When police examined a Doodlebug, they found no plutonium, no delicate electronic mechanism. The Doodlebug was just a piece of war-surplus radio equipment that could be bought for $3.50. There had been one slight" change; flashlight batteries had been installed to light up the bulbs when the knobs were turned...
...were all uranium-the heaviest metal-such a sphere would weigh about 460 Ibs., but only a small part (one guess: 24 Ibs.) can be uranium or plutonium. There must be a chemical explosive to start the nuclear reaction, and there may be some empty space...