Word: reactor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first, U.S. avithorities seemed to agree that the Chinese must have used plutonium as their fissionable material. The process of separating U-235 from natural uranium requires enormous amounts of electric power, and China is power poor. Plutonium, on the other hand, is made in nuclear reactors, which require little external power. China is known to have reactors, and both air surveyance and ground spying have reported a large reactor complex near Paotow in Inner Mongolia. Japanese students of Chinese activities also agreed that China must have used plutonium because it lacked the electricity needed for the production...
...China is woefully lacking in chromium and nickel, two elements basic to the operation of an atomic reactor...
...trying to assassinate the Premier of a new African nation, who was visiting a nuclear chemical plant near Washington. Napoleon Solo and a female companion (Patricia Crowley) in a spangled evening dress tried to prevent the killing and were soon being boiled like lobsters in live steam from the reactor. If all this sounds like the late Ian Fleming, it is. Fleming, while only fleetingly a consultant, was in spirit the creator of the series. Fleming held back a little more than his name. Solo is authentic Bond with a private label...
...Sonar. The Atomic Energy Commission's Atomsville is the highlight of New York's still-aborning museum. Parents are not allowed inside Atomsville, but through television they can watch children simulate bending a beam of electrons, handle "radio active" material with mechanical hands, and run a mock reactor that will shut off when it reaches the "scram" level -just as it does at Oak Ridge...
...refine steel-hardening molybdenum, in 1950 made a major splash when his prospectors discovered, near Mountain Pass, Calif., the world's largest deposit of exotic "rare earths," whose yet-to-be-exploited heat-resistant qualities make them the promising metals of the atomic age in nose cones, reactor shields and other critical parts; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...