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...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...
...bombs, and the Russians and others might be invited to participate or observe. But on dry Broom Lake in the isolated northeast corner of the range, a 1,500-ft. tower is under construction for far more advanced testing. On its top will soon perch a small, unshielded nuclear reactor designed to give powerful bursts of neutrons and gamma rays for short periods. There will be no explosion, but scientists will be able to observe the effect of the radiation on test objects (and perhaps animals) arranged around the tower. Thus, they should be able to estimate the killing effect...
...Australia-have fired weather rockets. But Shavit was the first fired by any Middle Eastern country, and a tremor of alarm ran through Israel's Arab neighbors (the Arabs suffered a similar tremor seven months ago when Israel admitted it was constructing a 24,000-kw. nuclear reactor). Presumably, any nation that can send a rocket winging 50 miles up for wind data can readjust its flight for military purposes. Jordan's Prime Minister Bahjat Talhouni said his government was "extremely concerned...
...erect in the cool foothills of the Himalayas, the first buildings scheduled to go up are a cluster of airy structures designed by famed US. Architect Edward Stone. Set in a cloistered water garden, the biggest of Stone's buildings will house Pakistan's first nuclear reactor-one of the latest sales made by New York's booming American Machine & Foundry...