Word: reactor
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This statewide system now boasts the nation's largest university nuclear reactor (10 megawatts), will offer a Ph.D. in nuclear engineering next fall, has a forward-looking Space Science Research Center exploring the possibilities of creating permanent settlements on the moon. Its pioneering school of journalism, first in the nation when founded in 1908, produces a city-wide daily newspaper and operates the only television station in Columbia. The university is looking for a topflight dean of graduate studies to direct its growing research activities-and is willing...
Communist Customers. To win contracts, companies and governments are making some imaginative deals. France is negotiating to sell a $118 million reactor to Spain, has offered to pay a quarter of the cost of it, and in return will get a quarter of the power that it produces. Westinghouse invaded heavily protected French territory, got the job of building the reactor for a Franco-Belgian plant in the Ardennes by promising to subcontract much of the work to local firms. In order to profit from the German market, Westinghouse has also licensed Siemens to use its reactor patents...
...A.M.F. and New York signed a letter of intent, under which the state's Atomic & Space Development Authority will put up $125,000 for the company to draw complete specifications for the free world's first nuclear-powered desalinization plant.* If the Atomic Energy Commission approves the reactor design as expected, New York will later scrape up $4,100,000. Building is to begin next April at Riverhead, N.Y., on the northeast shore of Long Island, and in 1968 the plant should start turning out fresh water...
...process to be used at Riverhead is called "multistage flash distillation." Water from Long Island Sound will be pumped into the plant, where it will be heated by an open-pool reactor. It will then pass through a series of large chambers, each with different pressure levels; the heat and the changes in pressure will cause the water to form steam and separate from the brine; the steam will then be condensed and piped out as pure, distilled drinking water...
...consumes 1.25 billion gal. The governments of the U.S. and Israel are now jointly studying the possibility of building nuclear desalinization plants with daily outputs of 100 million gal. For the Los Angeles region, Bechtel Corp. has recently completed the first stage of a study calling for a two-reactor nuclear plant that theoretically, by 1972, could turn out 150 million gal. per day, at a cost...