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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Experts called it the biggest atomic news since the end of World War II. The Atomic Energy Commission revealed last week that it is now considered practical to build a nuclear reactor which will "breed" more atomic fuel than it consumes...
...uranium, for instance, will certainly cause trouble long before the action is complete. But the contaminated uranium could be purified and "recycled." The AEC did not say so, but there is a possibility that when the breeding process has been refined, the uranium can be run through the reactor again & again until essentially all of it has been turned into energy. The world might thus have a practically inexhaustible source of nuclear fuel...
Although the AEC emphasized the peaceful aspects of its new process, the military aspects are important too. Fissionable material, however obtained, can be burned in a peaceful reactor or detonated in a bomb. If the new converter works as well as expected, it will help the U.S. make more bombs out of less uranium...
Radioactive Hornets. Brookhaven scientists discovered that ordinary hornets accumulate barium in their bodies. Since radioactive barium is one of the products of uranium fission, they intend to place hornets at key positions around Brookhaven's nuclear reactor. If the hornets become radioactive, the scientists will know that fission products are getting loose...
...found the price had jumped to $17,500. Soon, jalopies were pounding into town and Arco's streets were jammed with jubilant wheat farmers and ranchers, shouting, cheering and recklessly counting their future wealth. The Atomic Energy Commission had just announced that the U.S.'s first nuclear reactor testing station would be built on 400,000 acres of desert southeast of town...