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...first become available for commercial use in Chicago, where the Atomic Energy Commission is dickering with Commonwealth Edison Co. to pipe a "token amount" of nuclear electricity into the company's system by 1956. The power will be generated by the $17 million, 5,000-kw. boiling-water reactor AEC is building for its Argonne National Laboratory, operated by the University of Chicago...
...Navy's first atomic submarine, the $55 million Nautilus, ran into trouble .without leaving the dock. Last month a steam pipe outside the nuclear reactor burst during dockside trials. Last week the Navy learned why. The General Dynamics' Electric Boat Division, which built the Nautilus, had mixed together seamless and welded pipes in its warehouses-and in the Nautilus. Weak welded pipes burst under pressure which would have been withstood by the specified seamless piping. Moreover, it turned out that piping was mixed up too in Electric Boat's second atomic submarine, the Sea Wolf, now abuilding...
Enrico Fermi, a Nobel Prizewinner, is one of the principal founders of modern physics. On Dec. 2, 1942, he set in operation the first nuclear reactor, thus became the Prometheus of the Atomic Age. These distinctions should be enough, but this week Fermi could claim still another: his wife is one of the most engaging biographers who ever described the private life of a great scientist...
...NUCLEAR REACTOR, the first for purely industrial research, will be built by Chicago's Armour Research Foundation. To cost $500,000 the reactor will be ready in a year, will be used to experiment in such fields as medical diagnosis, food-sterilization, plastic, glass and rubber products...
...speech last week warned that Soviet Russia might soon create nuclear power plants for power-starved lands, and called on the U.S. for an all-out competitive effort "to put atomic power plants into operation, both here and abroad." For the first grant of a nuclear power reactor, Commissioner Murray suggested Japan-"the only land which has been engulfed in the white flame of the atom. Now, while the memory of Hiroshima and Nagasaki remains so vivid, construction of such a power plant in . . . Japan would be a dramatic and Christian gesture . . . a lasting monument to our technology...