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Citing the example of atomic reactors (furnaces), Pitzer pointed out that the first ones were built in wartime within three years. However, the job of building a reactor to produce electric power by atomic energy was delayed over a year while an "exhaustive series of preliminary studies" were conducted. He claimed that the technical ability to build the furnace was available right after the war, but top level advisors stopped...
Every nuclear reactor, whether built to make plutonium or to generate power, produces radioactive "fission products." The supply of this radioactive material does not increase indefinitely because it eventually reaches a point of equilibrium where new additions are balanced by decay of the old. But the fission products must be removed and stored where they can do no damage.* "In these days of cold war," says Thirring, it is likely that "countries possessing atomic piles will store their dangerous by-products with the intention of using them to make enemy cities or industrial centers uninhabitable." He suggests that this will...
...have been outstripped by the Soviets in this field." So far as the public knows, Britain still hasn't produced a bomb, but last week it proudly hailed a byproduct. British nuclear scientists have learned how to heat a building by tapping the heat given off by a reactor. Beginning this week, a building with 80 offices at Harwell's research station will have central hot-water heating, piped in from the nearby experimental atom pile...
...intricate offensive formations (24 in all) or the 36 spreads and shifts of the defense. Caldwell feels that agility is more important than size. Princeton's biggest regular defensive lineman is 198-lb. End Frank McPhee. Says Caldwell: "Most of our heavyweights are on the Jayvee. A slow reactor can't play for us. What we require is, first, speed and second, intelligence. Dumb football players can't play our game...
After two years of research and development, North American Aviation, Inc. this week announced the first atomic reactor to go "on sale on the general market. North American's low-powered pile is a 450-ton octagonal structure, 19 ft. across and 11 ft. high. It can run eight hours a day, five days a week for 'ten years without being recharged with fresh uranium. Its product: radioactive isotopes for medical and scientific research and industrial uses. Price: $1,000,000, plus another $1,500,000 to house the reactor,in laboratories that can put its products...