Word: reactor
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Papist Takeover. The shotgun wedding makes sound economic sense. Ireland is direly short of educational funds, and university enrollment during the next decade is expected to nearly double, from 15,911 to 27,000. The merger will end a costly duplicating of facilities. Ireland has no nuclear reactor, for example, because it could not in the past afford to build one at each university. Under the government's plan, both schools will keep their separate liberal arts faculties. Trinity is to be responsible for all work in biological sciences, law and medicine; University College will take over the physical...
...postwar Germany, Hahn became the most revered elder statesman of what had once been Europe's proudest scientific establishment. He collected many awards, including a Nobel Prize in chemistry for his discovery of fission. But he always accepted such honors with characteristic humility. Visiting an atomic reactor or nuclear power station, he would shrug modestly: "It has all been the work of others." In a soon-to-be-published 300-page memoir, he brushed off his historic work in fewer than five pages. Last week, at the age of 89, the father of fission died peacefully in his beloved...
...late 1950s, Bechtel was invited by the Atomic Energy Commission to construct the first nuclear-power breeder reactor. Since that pioneering work in reactor design and construction, it has participated in 42 commercial nuclear projects, and is working on 20 more...
...minimize the amount of oxygen necessary to maintain the two-gas atmosphere (44% oxygen, 56% nitrogen) that the student crew breathes, the simulated spacecraft is equipped with a concentrator that pulls exhaled carbon dioxide out of the air. The carbon dioxide is combined in a catalytic reactor with hydrogen and converted into water and methane. An electrolysis system then decomposes the water into oxygen-for breathing-and hydrogen that is used to feed the catalyti c reactor. Reluctant to waste even the squeal of this chemical pig, McDonnell Doug las engineers are working on spacecraft thrusters that can be powered...
...lack of governmental support was the basic cause of the Nazis' nuclear failure. But some of his anecdotes suggest that the German scientists themselves were at fault. After Physicist Walther Bothe calculated that graphite would not be an effective "moderator"-the material that slows down neutrons in a reactor-no German scientist thought to question him. Instead, the Germans turned to heavy water for a moderator. However, they were hamstrung for the remainder of the war when an Allied sabotage team crippled the world's only heavy-water plant, at Vemork in occupied Norway. Meanwhile, Enrico Fermi...