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...minute Soviet movie with ballet-music background. The Russians had given the impression that they had built no nuclear power plant except the small (5,000 kw.) job they completed in 1954, but the film showed a massive building in an unnamed Siberian town. Inside was a monster reactor yielding 100,000 kw. of electricity. Five more like it under construction will make the plant the world's biggest. General consensus was that the Russians, put deep in the shade by the U.S. technical exhibit, made the late announcement-by-inovie as a Sputnik-like surprise...
...British reactor experts were not impressed. The Soviet reactor is remarkable chiefly for its size. In other respects it is oldfashioned, using graphite as moderator, and ordinary water for-cooling. Its operating temperature, 180° C (356° F.), is low and therefore inefficient for power production. Soviet Delegation Chief Vasily Emelyanov practically admitted that the reactor is a dual purpose one whose primary job is making plutonium for nuclear explosives...
...history, was jammed last week with men who shape the world. As 5,000 scientists from 67 countries met for the second U.N. Atoms for Peace conference, the fission-and-fusion future unfolded in a staggering display of brains and machinery. Nobody topped the U.S. effort, a hugely successful reactor exhibit spiced with news that the world's first controlled thermonuclear reaction may have been achieved at Los Alamos. For a report on one of the biggest scientific meetings ever held, see SCIENCE, Monster Conference...
...build the new ship, Canada will need help from the U.S., but since a Canadian icebreaker would be a major addition to joint U.S.-Canadian forces in the Arctic, Canadian planners expect Washington to give all technical assistance-and a hearty Godspeed. Most likely builder of the propulsion reactor: Hamilton's Canadian Westinghouse Co., Ltd., whose U.S. parent company built the Nautilus' reactor...
ATOM PLANE ENGINE, proved a success in tests, has been run for 230 hours by General Electric. Engine is started by gasoline, but reactor power then takes over...