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CHEAP NUCLEAR POWER is goal of 54 utilities that propose to build new type, 40,000 kw. reactor outside Philadelphia. It would be cooled by helium; method may well prove more economical than usual water cooling...
Aside from keeping the fat cats as happy as they can be in the welfare state, Strauss will have a powerful voice in the development of the nuclear reactor program. Presumably, he is well-qualified for such an assignment, but his overweening predilections for privately financed reactors will not encourage those who conceive of atomic power as potentially beneficial to all the people, rather than the property of a small group of financiers. In some cases, of course, private development is both an economical and an advantageous proposition. Strauss, however, is overly prone to give private capital priority...
Though her visit was billed as unofficial (and the U.S. was thus spared the need of according full honors), Queen Frederika had a serious purpose for her presence. Greece is soon to start operating its first nuclear reactor, and with King Paul, Frederika has become a student of nuclear physics. "For my part," she told a TIME reporter last week, "although I know that radioactive isotopes and such are of great medical benefit, I am really most interested in theoretical physics. You have to learn something about it to have this interest. But now that I do-I want...
ATOM-POWER LEAD in race to supply world market with reactors has gone to General Electric Co. In key competition, with seven atom experts called by World Bank to help judge, G.E. won contract to build 150,000-kw. boiling-water-type reactor for Italian government near Naples. G.E. will also build West Germany's first power reactor...
...British reactor experts were not impressed. The Soviet reactor is remarkable chiefly for its size. In other respects it is oldfashioned, using graphite as moderator, and ordinary water for-cooling. Its operating temperature, 180° C (356° F.), is low and therefore inefficient for power production. Soviet Delegation Chief Vasily Emelyanov practically admitted that the reactor is a dual purpose one whose primary job is making plutonium for nuclear explosives...