Word: reactors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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ATOMIC PLANE will get a big boost from a new test reactor to be built by the Government at Sandusky, Ohio at a cost of $4,500,000. The nuclear reactor will not be a prototype plane engine, but will be used to supply data to General Electric, United Aircraft and Curtiss-Wright, which are working on an atomic engine, Boeing and General Dynamics, which are working on the plane to carry...
Both elements were later created deliberately by "fattening" plutonium with neutrons in the Arco, Idaho materials-testing reactor (TIME, March 8, 1954). but the news of their earlier and more violent birth was not declassified until this week. Probable reason: no one was supposed to know that UJ-238, which can be made to fission in a thermonuclear ex plosion, was a factor in Test Mike...
When he completes his present job, Steiger will plunge into an even more challenging assignment: building Switzerland's first "atomic city" in Zurich Canton. The project calls for a power-reactor plant surrounded by factories, and a complete town for the personnel. "If it works," Steiger says briskly, "I hope it will show that the architect can have a big, responsible position in the atomic...
...ready with order blanks, but, under the sure hand of Westinghouse International's Sales Manager Jose de Cubas, it also crashed the Geneva market with a sales technique that staggered European buyers. At the trade fair, Westinghouse had a small booth with a working model of its Shippingport reactor, but it had long since decided not to depend entirely on mechanical exhibits. Instead, the company took over the entire first floor of the fashionable Genevoise restaurant for the duration of the conference, so industrialists, scientists and newsmen could talk things over and enjoy the free drinks, snacks and cigars...
...good will paid off. Into Hospitality House, to mix with Westinghouse's Vice President for Atomics Charles Weaver and its top-drawer salesmen, swarmed representatives of 26 nations. Every prospect who looked good or even hopeful got a handsomely bound prospectus with pictures and detailed sketches of the reactor. When the time came to close the first sale, Scientist Weaver and Salesman de Cubas met with Fiat President Vittorio Valletta and signed...