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Even when he struck the jackpot with his half-dozen world-famous uranium mines, two copper mines and an iron mine, he found it impossible to raise production capital in the States; the bulk of it came from Europe...
...bomb was not H. Seismographs monitoring the Chinese test site in Sinkiang province indicated a wallop of only 130 kilotons. The Atomic Energy Commission found traces of lithium 6, a thermonuclear material right enough, but the major element in the explosion was enriched uranium-the same as in Peking's two earlier tests. China's first H-bomb will probably be a triple-stage fission-fusion-fission monster of the same "dirty" quality as the giant Khrushchevian 40-megaton bombs that were exploded prior to the 1963 test ban. Those bombs are too big to be delivered...
...brought up in the gutters of Brooklyn," Millionaire Joseph Herman Hirshhorn, 66, likes to say in moments of wry self-depreciation. But every inch that the 5-ft. 4-in. dynamo lacks in physical stature, he has more than made up for in wealth: his fortune, based on Canadian uranium, has grown to upwards of $100 million. Nor is there any gainsaying his voracious appetite for art. "I buy art almost every day," he says. "If I can't decide which of an artist's work, I buy them...
...expected to cost about $3,000. It will shoot low-energy X rays at the ground, causing silver on the surface to fluoresce, and will measure the fluorescence on a scintillation counter. Senftle sees the baby snooper as the silver equivalent of the inexpensive Geiger counter, which leads uranium prospectors directly to their quarry...
Aspirin and adhesive. Rivets and floor cleaners. Uranium fuel and food flavoring. What do all such widely divergent products have in common? Answer: They have all been improved and made more practical by a little-known but rapidly spreading process called microencapsulation...