Word: tritium
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...gaseous-diffusion process which is used at Oak Ridge and will also be used at the plant now being built near Paducah, Ky. The other AEC production plants at Hanford, Wash. and on the Savannah River are entirely different: they are reactors that make plutonium (and may make tritium for hydrogen bombs) through nuclear reactions caused by free neutrons given off by fissioning uranium. The fact that the AEC is building both kinds of plants suggests that...
...purpose. But the technique is complicated and takes a long time. Now the University of California's Dr. John H. Lawrence, one of the first and most imaginative of the atomic medicine men, can do the job far faster with heavy-heavy water, the oxide of hydrogen3 or tritium.-The radiant atoms of tritium reveal themselves (to the Geiger or scintillation counter); from the dilution of tritium oxide, it is a simple matter to calculate the total amount of water in the body...
...Atomic Energy Commission in Washington made an announcement: 200,000 acres in the Savannah River valley had been chosen for the site of a $1,180,000,000 plant to manufacture tritium and other materials of atomic war. The 6,000 residents of the area would have to leave. The deadline for Ellenton: midnight...
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...
...Pontecorvo stayed above suspicion. Last July he resigned from Harwell to take a post at the University of Liverpool, which has one of Britain's finest atomic research departments. He was doing work on tritium, key element for the hydrogen bomb; he was also keenly interested in cosmic ray research. Before going to Liverpool, Pontecorvo planned a holiday...