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...exports of radioactive minerals and end the joint-exploration treaty with the U.S. President Kubitschek meekly gave the nationalistic generals their way. Still in effect was the "Atoms for Peace" agreement in which the U.S., without asking anything in return, promised to provide Brazil with 13.2 Ibs. of uranium reactor fuel, donate $350,000 toward the cost of a research reactor...
Midget Atom Reactor. Aerojet-General Nucleonics of Berkeley, Calif., is developing a small (9 by 6½ ft.) low-voltage nuclear reactor for research and engineering uses. Aerojet will begin to make reactors in December, "mass-producing" one a month, hopes to sell them to schools, hospitals and industry in the U.S. and abroad. Cost: $95,000 each...
FIRST ATOMIC FREIGHTER will probably be launched by the U.S. by 1959. Maritime Administration has not yet decided whether to power the $40 million experimental ship with an obsolescent, Nautilus-type reactor or design a more advanced atomic plant suitable for merchantmen...
FIRST BIG U.S. REACTOR to manufacture more nuclear fuel than it consumes will be built near Monroe, Mich, by Detroit's Power Reactor Development Corp., a group of 26 industrial firms and private utilities. Power generated by the $40.5 million, 100,000-kw., "fast neutron breeder plant" will be distributed by Detroit Edison Co. AEC, which has made only small-scale fast breeders, stipulated that the company must show its plant is safe before getting operating permit...
...Chicago reactor is a concrete-shielded symbol of an economic force more far-reaching even than atomic energy. The force: research in industry. In the past 15 years a torrent of technological change has brought the U.S. greater material advances than any other nation has experienced in all history. With every breakthrough in the laboratory, industry has turned the new knowledge into new products for a society whose inventiveness has made achievement the bright converse of obsolescence...