Word: reactors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shown an atomic reactor which Premier Bulganin said was "similar to the one we are making for you." At Leningrad his train was mobbed as crowds broke police lines. Tito put on his man-in-the-street act, tucked children under the chin, and listened to extravagant compliments paid to him by Premier Bulganin who, just as eloquently a few years earlier, had referred to him as a "jackal...
...most exciting possibility Teller mentioned last. It is at least theoretically possible, he said, that a thermonuclear reactor may yield electric power direct, without costly and inefficient turbines, generators, etc. This is almost out of the question with uranium reactors, but the "magnetic bottle" of the thermonuclear reactor is electrical to start with. "If we shall have learned," said Teller, "how to confine a plasma of considerable pressure by a magnetic field, then it should not be too difficult to extract energy from the plasma by varying the magnetic field...
...first year he traveled 30,000 miles in Pennsylvania to find out what services his campus could render the state's agriculture and industry. He raised faculty salaries 35%, enlarged the library by 26%, put up the $3,000,000 Hetzel Union Building, a new research reactor building, an all-faith chapel. He raised the liberal-arts requirements for technology students. In 1953 Penn State officially became a university...
There are today at least eight feasible techniques for generating reactor heat convertible into electricity, e.g., pressurized water, sodium-graphite, boiling water, fast breeder. Britain, in sore need of power, is concentrating on one proved but cumbersome method (using a gas coolant), which is fast becoming obsolescent; Russia plans seven reactors; the U.S.. however, is actively planning to build and operate all eight types, in addition is considering at least two others. This means that the U.S. will lag in actual atomic-power output; it should also mean that the U.S. will emerge with the best method. A recent...
RADIATION INSURANCE, one of big problems in peacetime atomics, will be provided for industry by syndicate of 110 firms. Insurance companies have formed Nuclear Energy Liability Insurance Assn. to write up to $50 million coverage on a reactor, biggest ever given any industry, to pay possible damages from radiation...