Word: reactor
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Telltale evidence against Woodward was produced by neutron activation analysis (N.A.A.), which subjects specimens under study to irradiation with neutrons in a nuclear reactor. The fine details of the specimens' chemical composition can then be deduced from the pattern of radiation they give off. So sensitive is the technique that it can detect a thimbleful of poison dissolved in ten tank cars of water...
...fact, the U.S. decided months ago to proceed unilaterally on a plan for mothballing but not dismantling four plutonium reactors, all about ten years old. Still, by the end of this year, the Atomic Energy Commission will activate a new production reactor at Hanford Works, Wash., able to turn out one ton of plutonium (which costs $15,000 per lb.) a year-about as much as three of the older reactors could produce together...
...years ago, in Rowe, Mass, (pop. 260), a one-store mountain town on the Deerfield River not far from the old Mohawk Trail, they put up a brand-new nuclear reactor that turned out to be one of the U.S.'s largest. Owned by the Yankee Atomic Electric Co., a combine of a dozen New England utility firms, the reactor is worth $57 million; last year it hummed out more than a billion kilowatt-hours of electricity. It is by far Rowe's biggest industry, and Postmaster Wendell Bjork-who owns the town's general store-estimates...
Last week Rowe's reactor became a pawn in disarmament negotiations in Geneva. The U.S. announced that henceforth the reactor would be open to inspection by the International Atomic Energy Agency, an 86-member organization set up in 1957 as part of Dwight Eisenhower's Atoms for Peace plan. Adrian S. Fisher, U.S. delegate to the 17-nation disarmament conference, explained that I.A.E.A. inspection of Rowe's reactor will be a permanent arrangement "whether or not other states reciprocate." Fisher pointed out that three smaller U.S. reactors-two at Brookhaven, N.Y., and one at Piqua, Ohio-have...
...main purpose of allowing international inspection of the Rowe reactor was to pull the Soviet Union into active use of international inspection and control over peaceful fissionable materials. But by week's end, the only Russian word was from Semyon Tsarapkin, chief Soviet disarmament delegate in Geneva, who said: "You know this is a very difficult subject. We are very sensitive about controls." That everyone knew, even in Rowe...