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...laboratory in a squash court beneath the stands of the University of Chicago's old Stagg Field Stadium. Gathered there was a team of scientists and engineers headed by Enrico Fermi, a refugee from Mussolini's Italy. They had finished building history's first nuclear reactor. Now they were using it to produce the first controlled nuclear reaction...
...reactor was beautifully simple. It was called a "pile," and it was literally that-a 500-ton pile of carefully machined bricks made of pure graphite. Imbedded in some of the bricks, in a precisely calculated pattern, were little cubes of uranium or uranium oxide. Long control rods, plated with the metallic element cadmium, were so set up that they could be withdrawn from, or inserted into, deep holes in the graphite...
Atomic batteries to power radio transmitters have already been used in U.S. space satellites, and an AEC project is developing a special reactor for use inside space vehicles (see SCIENCE). Before many years, AEC predicts, nuclear engines will be propelling vehicles through space, as they already propel submarines, surface warships, and the nuclear merchant ship Savannah. AEC's Project Rover is actively working toward that...
...sees her. In the movie, Actress Ursula Andress fills a wet bikini as if she were going downwind behind twin spinnakers. In the book, the villainous Doctor No is buried alive inside a 20-ft. mound of bird droppings. In the movie, he is cleanly boiled in a nuclear reactor...
...Kaher has a range of 360 miles and could land, says Nasser pointedly, "just south of Beirut," i.e., in Israel. There is even a dim possibility of nuclear warheads. In moving up the escalator toward atomic power, Israel, with French help, has built a 24,000-kw. nuclear reactor in the Negev near Beersheba. and Egypt has a 2,000-kw. reactor at Inshas, 30 miles from Cairo, built with Soviet and private West German...