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...nuclear ambitions are, in fact, involving the company in the bitterest controversy in its 111-year history. It has already laid the foundations for a site on which to build a big reactor at Bodega Bay, a desolate crag 50 miles north of San Francisco. Because Bodega Bay is only 1,000 ft. from the San Andreas fault-the shifting rock formation that triggered San Francisco's 1906 earthquake-many Californians strongly oppose the plan, fearing that a quake-damaged reactor might spill fallout over the neighborhood area. Whether P.G. & E. can go ahead with its plans depends...
Adams' crust piercer, which he patented and assigned to the AEC, is a high-temperature nuclear reactor designed to melt its way into rock. The reactor is 2 ft. to 3 ft. in diameter, and its active material (uranium oxide) is enclosed in a cylinder of beryllium oxide, which serves as a heat insulator. The lower point, mostly tungsten, is heavy, while the upper point, mostly beryllium, is light...
Puddle of Lava. The "Needle Reactor," as Adams calls it, will be placed in a shallow shaft before its nuclear reactor is allowed to go critical. Quickly the temperature will rise to about 1,100° C. (2,012° F.), which is hot enough to melt most rock. Because of the insulation around the midsection, most of the heat will flow downward; soon the lower point will be surrounded by a puddle of lava. The needle reactor will gradually drop into this plastic stuff, and the lava will close over it and solidify...
Last week, when New York's Francis Cardinal Spellman made his second trip to conduct Christmas services at McMurdo Station, he found U.S. Opera tion Deep Freeze headquarters heated and lighted by an experimental $7,000-000 atomic reactor. There was turkey in the mess hall, a new movie nightly in the wardroom. Navy Seabees were bus ily installing a saltwater conversion plant which would ease the perennial water shortage, thus doing away with the "honeypot" latrines that have created a gleaming yellow man-made gla cier in the middle of the base. Navymen naturally echo the Rodgers...
...neutrinos hard to deal with. Though scientists have been convinced that the particles exist, they were not directly detected until 1956 when Physicists Frederick Reines and Clyde Cowan Jr., of the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, set up a monstrous apparatus near the Atomic Energy Commission's Savannah River reactor, which looses vast floods of neutrinos. A few times each hour while the reactor was working, the detector registered an "event." This meant that a single neutrino, out of many billions of billions per second, had actually hit something...