Word: reactor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Britain, short of fuel for her rapidly growing industries, needs atomic power more than the U.S. or Russia. In trying to get it as quickly as possible, British scientists have settled for a comparatively primitive reactor, which uses natural uranium for fuel and is cooled by pressurized carbon dioxide. As they gain experience, Britain's atomic engineers plan to shift to more advanced reactors...
...policy of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission has been to concentrate on small experimental reactors of advanced type while encouraging private industry to undertake the full-scale jobs. Its reasoning: that a reactor which would be economic in Britain, where power is expensive, would not be worth building in the U.S., where power is much cheaper...
ATOM-POWER FIGHT, starring public-v. private-power champions, will have a showdown at AEC public hearings next month. Argument will center on safety of "fast-breeder" reactor plant being built by Detroit Edison-led private combine near Monroe, Mich. Public-power proponents want AEC to halt "unsafe" Monroe project, favor government development of "fast breeder," which is reactor type with most economic promise...
...Chicago, Commonwealth Edison's Chairman Willis Gale, head of the private group building the 180,000-kilowatt Dresden reactor 50 miles southwest of Chicago, told the Atomic Industrial Forum the plant would furnish power at a cost of about three-fourths of a cent per kilowatt-hour when completed in 1960. Said Gale: "This is about the same as the cost of power produced by our newest coal-fired plants." Utilityman Gale acknowledged that in computing the Dresden figures he disregarded the initial $15 million expended on researching the plant, explained, however, that the second, third and fourth reactors...
Ionic Motor. More elaborate ways of using nuclear fuel in rockets have been dreamed up by the imaginative engineers who plan for space travel. One of their proposals is a nuclear reactor running a conventional electrical generator. The current from it ionizes atoms of some convenient element and expels them from the tail pipe. An "ionic motor" of this sort can run, theoretically, almost forever on a cupful of uranium...