Word: reactor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...partly to impress on the world U.S. interest in the peaceful atom. The 22,000-ton Savannah now stands the taxpayers nearly $47 million-about 50% more than a similar-sized, conventional ship. She will be able to cruise 300,000 nautical miles on a single fueling of her reactor. At first, the Savannah will be operated by the Maritime Administration as a sort of atomic-age tramp steamer, carrying up to 60 passengers and 10,000 tons of cargo at prevailing rates, without a set schedule. Then, in another 18 months, the Savannah will be chartered to the States...
Frank McGee's Here and Now (NBC, 10:30-11 p.m.). News feature stories. Included tonight: an inquiry into last year's explosion of an atomic reactor in Idaho...
...lines from its base at Christchurch, New Zealand, the U.S. in season flies some 7,500 men back and forth to the continent, plus thousands of tons of cargo. It has flown in prefabricated huts to protect its Antarctic team from the bitter weather, is planning to install nuclear reactors at its outposts. The first reactor is being erected now at the air facility at McMurdo Sound, and others will eventually go to the South Pole and Byrd stations. The reactors will not only pay for themselves through savings on fuel (which costs 50 times as much...
...experiment with large-scale production of artificial isotopes. Isotopes that do lot exist in nature are generally made by bombarding natural elements with neurons in a reactor. A nuclear explosion underground will supply a vast number of neutrons for this purpose...
...Four cod, lover boy! Ye canna be a slow coach here!" Waitresses scream, cooks curse, knives flash, fat crackles, urns squeal, sweat spews out of every pore and food leaps furiously from pot to plate as though it were alive. Faster the pace, wilder the tumult. Like a runaway reactor, like a Beethoven rising to full frenzy the great kitchen gathers itself and surges, thunders, mindlessly explodes in a tremendous climax of comestibles...