Word: reactors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Evendale, Ohio, G.E., the only company doing major work on the atomic-powered airplane, is going ahead at an $80 million-a-year clip in Government contracts. It has developed a direct-cycle engine (in which air is heated by direct contact with a nuclear reactor core), already successfully operated it on the ground...
...Knolls Laboratories near Schenectady, N.Y., G.E. is designing a twin-reactor, pressurized-water system for the world's largest submarine, the U.S.S. Triton. It is building a reactor system for the Navy's first nuclear destroyer, studying a boiling-water reactor for use in a merchant ship...
Phillips Petroleum (1957 sales: $1,136,892,901) runs the national reactor testing station at Idaho Falls, Idaho, where extensive testing of reactor prototypes and components is carried out. It operates several reactors for its own use and that of the AEC, produces 1,725 tons of uranium concentrate daily at its mill at Grants...
Alco Products (1957 sales: $160,628,000) is constructing the nuclear system for a 1700-kw. power and space heat reactor for the Army Corps of Engineers at Fort Greely, Alaska, has $9,000,000 in contracts for several nuclear reactor systems and for research and components...
...Industries (1957 sales: $294,592,000) is constructing a 22,000-kw. boiling-water reactor for the AEC at Elk River, Minn, for completion in 1960, test and research reactors for use in Sweden, The Netherlands and Italy...