Word: reactor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...There it is," said Project Manager John West. "The EBWR is on the line." The EBWR is the Atomic Energy Commission's Experimental Boiling Water Reactor at Argonne National Laboratory 25 miles southwest of Chicago, and Congressman Carl T. Durham of North Carolina, chairman of the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy, had just thrown a switch that put the reactor into operation...
Argonne's new reactor will produce only a trickle of power (5,000 kw.), but it is not intended as a commercial source of electricity. The first completed of the AEC's five experimental power reactors, it was designed specifically to evaluate one of the many approaches to the problem of cheap nuclear power...
...periodicals in the members' libraries, organized a joint adult education program with an enrollment of 7,000. Last week member deans and presidents added other projects, e.g., a plan by which six or seven of the smaller campuses would share the cost and use of an atomic reactor, and another to enable five colleges to share a common radio station...
ATOM-JET ENGINE for nuclear planes has been tested successfully by the Atomic Energy Commission, which powered a laboratory turbojet engine solely on heat generated by experimental reactor. Said AEC: "A significant advance toward the ultimate goal of achieving atomic-powered flight...
...property damage and $50 million in public-liability coverage, while third syndicate of about 100 mutual companies will write maximum $15 million in combined property-liability policy. Liability rates will vary with plant, starting with $500 per $1,000,000 for a year's coverage for a research reactor, $1,000 per $1,000,000 for power reactor...