Word: reactors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...world's first atomic pile went into action 14 years ago, a shrilling alarm bell signaled the birth last week of U.S. industry's Atomic Age. As a white-smocked scientist twisted the knobs on a control panel outside a monolithic concrete cubicle, a lighted dial flashed: REACTOR ON. Thus the world's first nuclear reactor devoted exclusively to industrial research went into operation at the Illinois Institute of Technology's Armour Research Foundation...
...three times an hour when the reactor was in operation, the detecting instruments registered "an event"-two flashes of light of exactly correct intensity and timing. This meant that a single neutrino (out of many billions per second) had hit a proton (out of billions along its path) and turned it into a positron and a neutron. After watching this happen for a total of 1,371 hours and taking elaborate precautions to eliminate false signals, Reines and Cowan announced that they had really detected neutrinos. AEC Commissioner Willard F. Libby congratulated them on their "magnificent accomplishment." Now nuclear physics...
FIRST ATOMIC-POWER reactor under President Eisenhower's atoms-for-peace plan has been ordered from Baltimore's Glenn L. Martin Co. by the Dominican Republic. The deal, contingent on a bilateral agreement between the U.S. and General Trujillo, will boost power-hungry Ciudad Trujillo's electrical output...
...business of exporting reactors to foreign countries, the U.S. is already substantially ahead. The U.S. has built and sold one research reactor to Switzerland, has contracts to sell four more to Spain, Brazil, Japan and Italy, and is to build a full-fledged commercial reactor for Belgium. Thus the U.S. is far ahead of Russia and Britain in the sale of research reactors, and is the only nation planning to export a commercial reactor...
While U.S. progress might be faster, the faults are not private industry's. It took 13 months from the time Consolidated Edison started negotiations with AEC to build a privately financed reactor before the AEC came through with the construction permit. Today, most private companies are still waiting on such essential Government actions as: 1) Government reinsurance to protect private companies against catastrophic damages from a reactor accident, 2) amendment of the Public Utility Holding Company Act to permit individual companies to club together to raise the huge sums necessary to build atomic reactors, 3) a Treasury ruling that...