Word: reactor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...March 1961, General Electric proposed to initiate early flight testing of a nuclear-propulsion system through the use of a test reactor mounted on a B52 aircraft. The reactor to be tested in flight is one designed for ground test and would require extensive modification, with resultant diversion of energy and skill, at considerable cost to the reactor development program. The purpose was to demonstrate reactor performance. However, the thrust generated by the reactor would be inadequate to sustain flight, and the proposal would contribute little toward the development of a fully nuclear-powered aircraft. In summary...
...direct-cycle system, designed by General Electric, is cumbersome and requires excessively heavy shielding as protection from radiation. The air passing through the reactor picks up a fraction of the fission products and exhausts it to the atmosphere as fallout during takeoff, landing and normal flight. As a result, it is unlikely that the aircraft could be operated from normal commercial or military airfields...
Another plan pertains to the N.Y. Central tracks that cut through the city near M.I.T., a right of way which would appear to offer one of the least disruptive, but perhaps most effective routes. Considerable opposition here has and will probably continue to come from M.I.T., whose nuclear reactor would lie in the path of the road. This route would also split off some of the new land that Tech has been acquiring and developing in the area...
Close to a nuclear reactor lies a patient, his brain exposed to a beam of neutrons, while doctors watch through a window. On a dormitory roof a handful of students lift their wineglasses to toast the sunrise after an all-night question-and-answer session with a professor of aerodynamics. In a laboratory a computer expert works on a pet project: developing an artificial nose that can smell. Around the campus, research teams study the sonar system of the bat in flight, assemble atoms into crystals capable of withstanding extraordinary stress, inquire into "the feasibility of controlling manipulative devices molded...
...independence are entirely misleading. In addition to 30 university graduates, people with the equivalent of an American M.A. or Ph.D. degree, there were more than 1,000 enrolled Congolese college students in Belgium and the Congo. Africa's only two full-fledged universities and Africa's sole nuclear reactor are in the Congo. Add to that more than 17,000 men and women studying to be teachers, some 20,000 students in technical schools, and almost 18,000 in high school and junior college. The total figures for those in primary school was more than...