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...Gonna Shoot." There, on Dave Weyer's insistence, Violet was brought to Psychiatrist G. Charles Sutch. Typically, in cascades of anxiety and tears, she persisted in saying: "I don't know what happened. I just don't remember." Sutch gave her a dose of Sodium Amytal (truth serum) in an attempt to break through the "tremendous amnesic barrier." "You can remember, Violet," he persuaded her gently. "Tell me everything that happened." Violet haltingly told her story: she had returned home from a restaurant with her husband, quarreling, on the way, about the food. Then...
Water in the Bag. At 8:45 a.m. on Aug. 1, attendants wheeled Hickey into an operating room at NIH. The anesthesiologists knocked him out with sodium pentothal, then put him in a double-jacketed plastic bag up to his neck. Through the bag they circulated ice water. When Hickey was chilled enough so that circulation could be almost stopped without fear of damage to his brain, the surgeons opened both his aorta and his heart. Through a slit in the aorta they slipped the stem of the tee-shaped gadget, then worked this down into the heart wall until...
...reactor will be of novel design, using heavy water as the moderator to slow down its neutrons, and liquid sodium as the coolant to extract the heat of the reaction. This combination is extremely efficient, but engineers have always shied away from it because water and liquid sodium react explosively when they come in contact. Only recently were methods devised to keep them safely apart...
...advantage of the design is that the sodium can become very hot without vaporizing. This eliminates high-pressure vessels and piping. Another advantage is that the fuel need be only slightly enriched in costly U-235. The designers of the reactor believe that it can produce electricity at 7 mills per kilowatt-hour, which is much cheaper than the current cost (16.8 mills) of steam power in the Anchorage area...
Larger models of the heavy water-sodium reactor (50,000 kilowatts and up) can be fueled with natural uranium. This is an important advantage for sales outside the U.S. So far, the most efficient reactors have demanded enriched uranium, made only in the U.S., Britain and Russia. Many countries want nuclear power, hate becoming dependent on the great powers for fuel. If they use natural uranium they can get fuel from many independent sources...