Word: reactors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Shake-Out. Uranium miners were not the only ones in trouble last week. The problems of developing atomic power are so great that the manufacturers of reactors now face the same kind of industry-wide shake-out that uranium miners are going through. Many small manufacturers are cutting back their plans for breaking into the reactor business. Bell Aircraft Corp. recently laid off 29 of its 30 atomic engineers. Like several other companies, it has decided to make reactor components instead of whole reactors. Even some of the giants are beginning to take a critical second look...
...estimates have jumped from $55 million to $90 million. At the nation's first major nuclear power plant, which is scheduled to start operating at Shippingport, Pa. before year's end, Westinghouse has spent 80? on research and development for every $1 spent on construction of the reactor portion...
...fire in the uranium did not go out. Police were alerted to evacuate the area, as scientists debated whether it would be safe to put out the strange, new-style fire with old-style water. The decision was made to go ahead, and hoses poked into the reactor soon put out the fire. The alert was canceled, and the single casualty, Worker Stan Ritson, who got unpleasantly radioactive, was scrubbed over and over and sent home with all his body hair shaved...
...crisis at Windscale was over, but alarm spread across Britain and refused to be checked by soothing statements from the Atomic Energy Authority. Air that has passed through the Windscale reactors is blown up a 416-ft. chimney that is capped by filters to keep radioactive dust from escaping into the atmosphere. The uranium fire deep in the reactor was too much for them. Some of its deadly "smoke" got loose, and a good bit settled on the surrounding countryside, now known in Britain as "Geiger Gulch...
NUCLEAR ELECTRICITY for rural co-ops will be slow in coming because of inflation. With costs zooming, American Machine & Foundry backed out of deal with AEC to construct reactor for proposed rural co-op at Elk River, Minn., and Foster Wheeler Corp. withdrew offer to supply reactor for another co-op at Grand Rapids...