Word: reactor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Calmly and cautiously, Fermi gave the necessary orders. Inch by inch, a neutron-absorbing control rod was drawn out of the reactor. The instruments watching its behavior began to click louder. Fermi would not be rushed. At 11:35 a.m. he casually remarked, "Let's go to lunch," and the reactor was shut down...
...single cobalt radiation source, which will cost Standard more than $17,000, is not powerful enough for a full-scale production setup. If the company decides to build an atomic oil refinery, it is thinking of using a nuclear reactor as a lavish source of radiation. Its scientists hope that by that time reactors will be safe enough to trust in a populated area...
...active U-235-The actual bulk delivered might be much more, since U-235 is mixed with other uranium in various concentrations depending on its intended use. None would be "weapon-grade," i.e., concentrated enough for bombs, and the quantity, when divvied up, was less than a large power reactor would require. But it was enough to run an estimated 30 to 40 research reactors in as many countries. Said Lodge pointedly: "I hope this will once and for all remove from the minds of all any confusion as to how specific the U.S. atoms-for-peace proposition is." Perceptibly...
Early next year, said Lodge, the U.S. will establish a reactor training school to which 30 to 50 foreign scientists will be invited. The Atomic Energy Commission will sponsor courses, open to all nations, in atomic preventive medicine, disposal of atomic wastes, the use of radioisotopes as tracers. Brookhaven, Argonne and Oak Ridge will open to foreign scientists one-to two-year courses in the use of atomic energy in medicine and biology; 150 foreign specialists will visit U.S. cancer research centers. For cooperating nations, the U.S. has built up ten complete libraries of nonclassified atomic publications totaling 300 feet...
...first become available for commercial use in Chicago, where the Atomic Energy Commission is dickering with Commonwealth Edison Co. to pipe a "token amount" of nuclear electricity into the company's system by 1956. The power will be generated by the $17 million, 5,000-kw. boiling-water reactor AEC is building for its Argonne National Laboratory, operated by the University of Chicago...