Word: reactors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Norway, with its huge hydroelectric resources, is concentrating on a ship-propulsion reactor to end its big merchant fleet's dependence on imported coal and oil. Already there is a 250-kw. reactor near Oslo, operated in cooperation with Dutch scientists...
...Netherlands is also developing other reactor projects, one of them involving the design and construction of a new "suspension" reactor which uses fine particles of uranium oxide in water as a reacting fuel...
Belgium, in its strong position as a major supplier of raw uranium ore from the Belgian Congo (see FOREIGN NEWS), has had less trouble than most in getting U.S. aid and assistance. Its first low-power reactor, using 30 tons of U.S.-refined uranium and 500 tons of British graphite (as moderator), is under construction...
Sweden has been trading its own low-grade uranium ore (200 grams of uranium per metric ton) for refined French uranium metal. At present the Swedes have one 300-kw. reactor built underground in Stockholm, another big reactor with a probable output of 20,000 kw. and some plutonium...
Switzerland's Jacques LaLive de Piney reported plans for a $7,000,000 reactor (using five tons of uranium, eight tons of heavy water), to be ready...