Word: reactors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Britain's John V. Dunworth reported that his country is embarking on a three-stage, $8,400,000 reactor-building program. In stage 1: ten to 20 reactors will annually produce several tons of plutonium at relatively low cost, form the basis for stage 2: concentrating on six or seven types of power reactors, including a gas-cooled model, which may use thorium and plutonium. Stage 3: fast reactors and a host of experimental models. Said Reactor Chief Dunworth: "We're endeavoring not to restrict our ideas too much...
Italy's Carlo Salvetti reported that his fellow scientists have completed plans for a natural uranium reactor in Milan with a production of 10,000 kw. Recently offered a CPs reactor (used to make radioisotopes) and ten tons of heavy water by the U.S., Italy will probably save its own new uranium reactor for later, give research priority to the U.S. model...
...damage resulting from the private licensee's use or possession of nuclear materials. There will be no charge for the license and atomic plants producing electricity will come under the same regulatory agencies which now control other electric utilities. Manufacturers who do not build complete reactors, but only supply reactor components, will not have to be licensed. If the AEC must limit licenses or choose between competing applicants, the commission will give top priority to public power or cooperative agencies in high-cost power areas. Next will come private plants in high-cost areas followed by public or cooperative...
...reactor being built by Westinghouse at Shippingport, Pa. will be fueled by a ten-ton core of uranium. Larger reactors of current design may use as much as 200 tons, which must be replaced every few years...
...Pittsburgh, Westinghouse Electric Corp., which is already building a nuclear reactor for the world's first atomic power plant and a $2,000,000 atomic research center, announced a new plan to make Pittsburgh the "atomic capital of the world" by building a second $6,000,000 lab to do research and development work on peacetime uses for the atom...