Word: scaled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...handsome scale...
Pressed to comment on Bhabha's fore cast, AEC Chairman Lewis Strauss disclosed what most scientists already knew: the U.S. (like Russia and Britain) has long been experimenting with fusion power on "a moderate scale." But, he added, H-power is a long-range project, and, barring an early, unforeseen "breakthrough," uranium will be the standard reactor fuel for some time to come...
...plants, new dams, new roads, new schools. The number of schoolrooms has increased tenfold since war's end; the death rate is down to less than 40% of prewar. Many Okinawans who once existed exclusively on a sweet-potato diet have climbed a rung on the Oriental living scale and eat rice. "Before the war, only section chiefs and above in the government wore shoes," says one Okinawan. "Now everybody has a pair." The Colonial Business. Without anyone really intending it that way, the U.S. has been thrust into the colonial business. It has taken on 790,000 wards...
...exchange post of information, the Geneva Conference is an impressive "atomic fair"-the first that the world has seen. Many of the great, marble-crusted spaces in the Palace of Nations are crowded with the exhibits of the participating governments. They range from tiny instruments to large-scale models of reactors, all the weird and wonderful trappings of the atomic age. Most are eerily silent, with no whining of gears or throb of engines; atomic energy is a quiet business, and radioactivity is, of course, both invisible and silent...
...French erected a scale model of their "Atomic City" at Marcoule. Britain exhibited models of two heavy-water reactors and photographs of its Calder Hall power reactor, which is nearing completion. The Russians showed a model of their own rather small (5,000 kw.) power reactor which is in operation, and an exhibit dealing with uranium geology, biology and medicine...