Word: reactors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...could be: hardly had the Administration announced that it was taking a new, hard look at L.S. aid to Yugoslavia's Communist Dictator Tito than, last week, it confirmed that Tito would receive, as scheduled, a U.S.-made atomic energy reactor. Also planned: U.S. training for the Yugoslav scientists who would operate...
...technical fact, the transfer of the reactor and 13,000 grams of enriched uranium will take place under the auspices of the International Atomic Energy Agency, of which both the U.S. and Yugoslavia are members. The agency, an outgrowth of Dwight Eisenhower's Atoms for Peace proposals of 1953, is supposed to make sure that the reactor is used only for peaceful purposes. The transfer was first approved 13 months ago by John McCone, then chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, and was reaffirmed a few weeks ago when the AEC signed an agreement to supply the uranium fuel...
Westinghouse Electric Corp., whose defense projects account for 20% of its sales, brings its nuclear reactor prowess (Nautilus, Seawolf) to use on Nerva, the first atomic rocket, and SNAP, atomic-generated power for satellites...
...Emory scientists took their measure of the future at Dawsonville, Ga., some 50 miles north of Atlanta, where the Lockheed Aircraft Corp. built a medium-sized (10,000 kw.) unshielded nuclear reactor for Air Force research on atom-powered airplanes. The reactor was set among wooded hills and abandoned fields that were reverting to forest, and in June 1959 it was allowed to operate for a short period at high level, spraying its surroundings with gamma rays and neutrons, the total dose simulating the effect of fallout after a nuclear...
Within a week, nearby pine trees began to turn brown and die. Most of the trees within 2,000 feet of the reactor are now dead. Hardwoods proved more resistant. Their leaves showed little effect until autumn, when they fell one to six weeks early. Next spring the buds of hickories and oaks did not develop normally. When the rolling hills of north Georgia were green with fresh new leaves, the sick forest around the reactor looked just as it had in winter...