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ATOMIC power for commercial use within five years is General Electric's goal. G.E. will ask the Atomic Energy Commission for permission to build an atomic power plant at AEC's Hanford Works near Richland, Wash. The multimillion-dollar plant would produce plutonium as well as electric power. Said G.E.'s President Ralph J. Cordiner: "The most significant [industry] pronouncement . . . since the invention of the incandescent lamp...
...Richland, Wash...
Married. Georgia Neese Clark, 52, Richland, Kans. banker and outgoing Democratic Treasurer of the U.S. (she was the first woman Treasurer, and her signature appears on all U.S. folding money printed since mid-1949); and Andrew J. Gray, 40, Washington public-relations counsel and onetime Boston Post reporter; she for the second time, he for the first; in Alexandria...
Radiation-Proof Robots. The Hanford plutonium plant at Richland, Wash, is even lonelier. The great reactors themselves are virtually uninhabited. Nothing about them moves; nothing changes visibly. A good part of the Columbia River flows through the cooling ducts, but its passage makes almost no sound...
...plot with the scale on the map 53,600 feet (10.1 miles) due south of the high school in the town of Newton, and 49,600 feet (9.4 miles) northwest of the high school in Olney, 21,000 feet west of Dundas and 2,820 feet south of the Richland and Jasper county line. A farm house (probably Snider's) was located 250 feet to the west and the elevation above sea level of the plotted point would be 503 feet...