Word: steams
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...expectation. The U.S. has told a surprising lot. An interesting U.S. paper tells how scientists at Oak Ridge wanted to know what would happen if a nuclear reactor should get out of control. They built two, of different kinds, and let them rip. They blew up with clouds of steam, but not with anything like the violence of a true atomic explosion. Russia and Britain have told a lot, too, and the smaller nations have made manful contributions...
...atomic energy plants and keep pace with the mid-South population and industrial growth. Instead of ignoring TVA's needs (as had been done in the 1953 budget), Dodge decided that he could either 1) request $100 million in the 1955 budget for a new TVA steam plant, which Congress had already rejected twice, or 2) find ways to lighten TVA's load...
...Energy, Inc. President J. W. McAfee, whose Joppa, 111. plant was built to supply AEC's installation at Paducah, Ky.. and could have provided the additional 500-600,000 kw. needed by AEC. On the assumption that Electric Energy. Inc. would do the job, Dodge omitted the steam plant from his budget...
...President McAfee decided against the plant expansion at Joppa. Instead, McAfee brought in Middle South Utilities. Inc. President Edgar H. Dixon (who was also Electric Energy, Inc.'s vice president). Dixon. with The Southern Co.'s Eugene A. Yates, eventually contracted with AEC to build a steam plant at West Memphis. Its 600,000 kw. were to be fed into TVA to replace the power drained off by the AEC, and thus would only indirectly have supplied the AEC plant at Paducah. Nonetheless, as crinkly-eyed Joe Dodge cracked: "When it comes...
...about $53 million complete; it is slightly leaner, longer and more expensive than the Nautilus, the world's first atomic-powered submarine (TIME, Jan. 11, 1954). The drastic differences are inside: to further nuclear development, the Navy deliberately chose two distinct, competitive types of atomic reactors to power steam turbines aboard the two vessels. Unlike the water-cooled thermal reactor on the Nautilus, the Seawolf's high-speed reactor will be cooled by liquid sodium, will create more heat and energy and burn more nuclear fuel...