Word: reactors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ready to use the U-235, is now studying seven more applications. The foreign share will probably go to most of the 26 nations with which the U.S. now has bilateral agreements for cooperation in atomic research. (Scientists from 29 nations are being or have been trained in reactor technology at the AEC's Argonne National Laboratory near Chicago...
...nuclear power plants will "outperform all existing types of power-generating plants." Such plants are not now being built, he told an audience of engineers in Manhattan, because "we do not yet have materials of construction that can withstand the severity of conditions which would exist within a power reactor operating with ultrahigh power output." Some of the major kinks that must be ironed out, according to Roboff, before commercial nuclear power becomes "really attractive and generally available...
...cost of reactor materials, e.g., zirconium, beryllium and heavy water, must be greatly reduced...
...Smaller and lighter reactor shields must be designed for use in mobile reactors...
This cooperative program also continues a trend which has developed in relationship to the two universities. During the past few months, they have decided to work together on an electronic computer and a nuclear reactor...