Word: reactor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this campus this morning;, I had the privilege of inspecting the first atomic reactor of its kind established under university auspices . . . The extent of the economic and industrial changes that we can anticipate is indicated by estimates that world sources of uranium potentially available contain as high as 20 times the energy of the known world reserves of coal, petroleum and natural gas combined . . ." Look to the Atom. "Our nation has no desire for a monopoly on the knowledge and practice of these possibilities. We want the world to share-as we always have...
...ATOMIC REACTOR for big surface ships is being pushed by AEC. After giving Westinghouse Electric Corp. a preliminary contract for research and design last October, the AEC has asked Congress for $25 million to build a fullscale, dry-land prototype at its Idaho test center...
...PEACE program pledged to the world by President Eisenhower is moving faster. Next bilateral agreement for sharing U.S. materials and know-how will be with the Philippine republic (first country: Turkey). Japan's Cabinet has also voted to accept a U.S. offer of enough uranium for a pilot reactor...
SECOND ATOMIC SUBMARINE, the U.S.S. Sea Wolf, will be launched in mid-July by General Dynamics. Faster than the Nautilus, the Sea Wolf will also have a different type energy reactor, cooled by sodium instead of water. The Navy has money and plans for two more atom-powered subs, expects Congress will approve three additional A-subs in the next budget...
FIRST NUCLEAR REACTOR to be sent abroad by the U.S. will be sold to Switzerland this August. The U.S. will set up a small experimental "swimming pool" reactor, i.e., one immersed in water as both shield and coolant, rated at 10 kw., in Geneva to demonstrate the peacetime uses of atomic energy before a United Nations conference, then let Switzerland have the reactor, plus 55 Ibs. of nuclear material, when the meeting is over...