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Since then, AEC's activities have mushroomed. Latest expansion is the Savannah River Plant in South Carolina, which will cost $1,250,000,000. The engineers who are building it believe it is the greatest construction project in world history: bigger than the Panama Canal or the Great Wall of China. The contrast between the quiet of 1901 Constitution Avenue and the spectacular activity along the Savannah hits any visitor...
There is a strong presumption that the reactors at the Savannah River Plant will use heavy water instead of graphite as a "moderator." They are designed for flexibility: "They will make materials for A-bombs (plutonium) and H-bombs (tritium) as well as other useful products." What these "others" may be has not even been hinted...
...industry: General Electric, Du Pont, Union Carbide and Carbon, Monsanto, Westinghouse, Western Electric, etc. Such outfits are intensely jealous of their reputations and go far beyond formal correctness. In spite of the lack of profit motive (Du Pont gets $1 for building the $1,250,000,000 Savannah River Plant), they are working with enthusiasm, diligence and enterprise. They comb through their organizations to find the best men to put on AEC jobs. They are careful about security, quality of work, and costs to the Government...
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...notable week for the O'Haras, the Pope also named Archbishop Gerald P. O'Hara, 56 (no kin), bishop of Savannah-Atlanta, to be papal nuncio to Ireland. Archbishop O'Hara has been a nuncio before, in Rumania, from which he was expelled by the Communists...