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...Soviet Union had rejected it.* As the next step, Dulles proposed a four-point agenda for 1955, with or without Red cooperation: 1) creation of an international atomic agency, 2) calling an international scientific conference to dis cuss the atom as an agent for peace, 3) opening of a reactor training school in the U.S. to teach students from abroad the working principles of atomic energy, and 4) an invitation to foreign medical men to participate in U.S. cancer research through atomic techniques...
...will supply nuclear fuel elements (presumably uranium enriched with fissionable 11-235) to Atomic Energy, of Canada, Ltd. After use in Canada's new heavy-water reactor, AEC will purify the fuel elements chemically and will buy some of the products (presumably plutonium) extracted from them...
...President furnished a few details. Said he: "As these arrangements are being made we will set up a reactor school to help train representatives of friendly nations in skills needed for their own atomic program. Discussions will shortly take place on cooperation with countries planning to build their own research reactors." The U.S. was, he said, about to negotiate with Belgium on the building of an atomic tower reactor in that country; this week detailed negotiations will begin with Canada, and negotiations with other nations will swiftly follow...
Officially dubbed the Army Package Power Reactor, the new device will generate enough power for a town (or military base) of 1,700. When fully assembled, it will fit into a building 42 ft. high but only 29 ft. wide by So ft. long (smaller than a standard Army barracks). To prove that an atomic power plant can be sufficiently tamed to live close to civilization, the Army will build the new model at the Army Engineer School at Fort Belvoir, Va., 18 miles down the Potomac from Washington. Estimated completion date...
Despite a high initial cost of some $8,000,000, the portable reactor looks like an eventual money-saver to the Pentagon. Remote U.S. bases, especially those in the Arctic, burn up vast amounts of oil for heat and diesel-generated electricity at a cost that sometimes reaches $42 a barrel. Using the reactor and its enriched uranium fuel, the Pentagon could free ships and planes for other duties; 1 Ib. of easily transported uranium contains as much energy as 6,350 barrels of fuel oil. AEC has another outlook on the project. Said one AEC physicist: "We are buying...