Word: reactors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Brookhaven scientists gave Nick Christofilos a job and appreciation, but he did not stay with them long. He had ideas about the biggest problem in applied physics-how to generate controlled fusion power-and Brookhaven had no such program. In 1956 he took his scheme for a fusion reactor to the University of California, which had become acquainted with his yeasty mind eight years before...
Christofilos now works on his fusion reactor, which he calls the Astron, at super-secret Livermore Laboratory in the green hills southeast of Berkeley. His idea of trapping electrons in the earth's magnetic field grew out of Astron, which is designed to trap ionized particles in a magnetic field in a laboratory rather than on a global scale. Nick's paper proposing Project Argus, written in late 1957, was not published except in classified form, and not all scientists agree that it was the first such proposal. Professor Fred Singer of the University of Maryland is said...
BRITISH ATOM SUB reactor will be built by Westinghouse, first such reactor to be sent abroad. Westinghouse got contract because no British firms build the pressurized water reactor found best for subs. British firms have been concentrating on large generators for power stations...
...TIME, Jan. 26). The Democrats charged that the AEC's plan, which calls for $249 million for atomic power projects in fiscal 1960-more than half of it for the military-actually represents a cut that would provide only $14.5 million in new money for civilian power reactors, v. $74 million authorized last year. AEC would drop six projects intended for 1959, including a 100,000-kw. heavy-water reactor, an experimental reactor fueled by molten salt, a small-scale pressurized water reactor, and three small experimental reactors. In their place, it would add six entirely new projects...
...reactor program, the committee estimates that an annual expenditure of $200 million to $225 million would be required, with the Government's share around $150 million to $200 million, the rest coming from industry. Against this, the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy had proposed $250 million to $275 million. The difference could be partly met by switching money already in the AEC budget. But Washington guessed that if AEC Chairman McCone vigorously pursues the advice he solicited, he will have to fight with the Budget Bureau for more civilian reactor funds...