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...Sonar. The Atomic Energy Commission's Atomsville is the highlight of New York's still-aborning museum. Parents are not allowed inside Atomsville, but through television they can watch children simulate bending a beam of electrons, handle "radio active" material with mechanical hands, and run a mock reactor that will shut off when it reaches the "scram" level -just as it does at Oak Ridge...
...refine steel-hardening molybdenum, in 1950 made a major splash when his prospectors discovered, near Mountain Pass, Calif., the world's largest deposit of exotic "rare earths," whose yet-to-be-exploited heat-resistant qualities make them the promising metals of the atomic age in nose cones, reactor shields and other critical parts; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
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...
...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...