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Only rough guessing is possible about this buttoned-up subject, and no guess is likely to hit on an accurate description of the atomic plane. Nuclear reactors have been evolving rapidly. Several widely differing types have been described, and more are under secret development. Some, using plutonium or uranium 235 instead of natural uranium, may turn out to be small but still very powerful...
...design, weight, bulk and power of the nuclear engine will be determined by such factors as the temperature that its metals can endure or the heat that can flow through them. One factor that the designers will not have to worry about is fuel economy. The fuel (uranium or plutonium) that starts the engine running will last almost undiminished throughout any flight that the airplane is likely to make...
...Ordered the construction of a $900 million factory near Aiken, S.C., a new $50 million U-235 plant at Paducah, Ky., and $200 million additions to both the original Oak Ridge plant and the Hanford, Wash. plutonium works...
Atomic Housecleaning Reporting for work at General Electric's plutonium plant in Hanford, Wash., a night watchman began the routine of checking in. He stopped before an Alpha radiation counter about the size and shape of a soft-drink machine, casually stuck his hands in, and listened for the amplified clicks by which the sensitive instrument registers its count. The chatter he heard from the machine shocked the startled patrolman right out of his routine, sent him rushing to the Health Instruments Division. There, doctors quickly confirmed the machine's verdict. His hands were emitting more radiation than...
Under questioning, the contaminated patrolman tried to remember where he could have picked up his dose of radiation. Finally he recalled that on his rounds the night before, he had come across a broken wrench. Unaware that it had been used on equipment for processing plutonium, he had taken the wrench home, figuring that it might come in handy around the house...