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...partly to impress on the world U.S. interest in the peaceful atom. The 22,000-ton Savannah now stands the taxpayers nearly $47 million-about 50% more than a similar-sized, conventional ship. She will be able to cruise 300,000 nautical miles on a single fueling of her reactor. At first, the Savannah will be operated by the Maritime Administration as a sort of atomic-age tramp steamer, carrying up to 60 passengers and 10,000 tons of cargo at prevailing rates, without a set schedule. Then, in another 18 months, the Savannah will be chartered to the States...
...Savannah's reactor, a time-tested model similar to those used in U.S. nu clear submarines, will drive the ship at a speed of 21 knots. One problem for the Savannah designers was to shield the $10 million reactor so that a collision with another ship would not release death dealing radiation. To accomplish this, the ship's nuclear engineers encased the reactor in reinforced bulkheads, extra-heavy plating, a 2-ft.-thick "collision mat" made of layers of steel and redwood, and some 2,000 tons of lead and concrete...
Hard on the heels of Russia's promise of a nuclear reactor destined for the University of Ghana came the appointment of the school's first professor of nuclear physics: a Briton who has been 15 years away from the field. Recipient of the chair (among several earmarked for "distinguished scholars from all parts of the world"): Alan Nunn May, 51, who served six years and eight months for giving atomic secrets to the Russians...
Frank McGee's Here and Now (NBC, 10:30-11 p.m.). News feature stories. Included tonight: an inquiry into last year's explosion of an atomic reactor in Idaho...
...lines from its base at Christchurch, New Zealand, the U.S. in season flies some 7,500 men back and forth to the continent, plus thousands of tons of cargo. It has flown in prefabricated huts to protect its Antarctic team from the bitter weather, is planning to install nuclear reactors at its outposts. The first reactor is being erected now at the air facility at McMurdo Sound, and others will eventually go to the South Pole and Byrd stations. The reactors will not only pay for themselves through savings on fuel (which costs 50 times as much...