Word: reactors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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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...
...reactor, owned jointly by the Armour foundation and 24 companies whose interests extend from food preserving to watchmaking, will hasten the new knowledge on which U.S. industry is building an Atomic Age technology. In the atomic furnace, physicists will explore the structure of metals, search for new plastics, investigate new ways of refining oil, new uses for rubber. Radioisotopes from the 50,000-watt reactor will be used by industry as tracers to track friction damage in machinery, test new chemical carriers for cancer therapy, hunt new manufacturing techniques in fields ranging from rubber to building materials...
...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...