Word: reactor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...there is plenty of low-grade ore that can be mined economically by cheap hand labor. Probably more important are India's thorium deposits, the richest in the world. Thorium cannot be used directly as nuclear fuel. It must be turned into uranium 233 in a reactor, just as uranium 238 is turned into plutonium. Dr. Bhabha thinks that this conversion may be standard practice a few years from now. Uranium 233 derived from thorium is in many important respects the most desirable of all the nuclear fuels...
...Indian atomic timetable calls for a small research reactor to be finished this year; its instruments and control system are already well advanced. Next year will come a much bigger reactor for producing radioactive isotopes and testing materials...
...last week's test runs, the Nautilus behaved as well as Rickover and his associates hoped it would. Afterwards an officer confidently reported: "Hell, we could have gone to Europe and back without coming up." The Nautilus is powered by steam turbines. The heat comes from a nuclear reactor with a small uranium core. The Nautilus can outrun any other sub (an estimated 28 knots) and dive deeper than any other (beyond 500 feet). Armed with torpedoes (she can also carry atomic missiles), the Nautilus is scheduled to enter active service with the Atlantic Fleet in just six weeks...
...York's Consolidated Edison started to work on plans for a reactor, announced that within five to ten years the city might have atomic power. American Locomotive Co. won a $2,096,753 AEC contract to build an atomic generator that can be broken down and flown anywhere in the world. Said General Electric's President Ralph Cordiner: "By 1976, half of all new electric-power installations will be atomic." The changes came almost too fast to be counted. Westinghouse and Duquesne Light started work for the Government on the nation's first full-scale...
Died. Enrico Fermi, 53, world-famed Italian-born nuclear physicist who supervised the building of the first successful nuclear reactor; of cancer; in Chicago (see SCIENCE...