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...BIGGEST URANIUM MILL in U.S. will be built in New Mexico's Ambrosia Lake area to process ores of Kermac Nuclear Fuels Corp. The $16 million plant will go into operation in 18 months, have daily capacity of 3,300 tons v. 3,000 tons for next largest mill. Kermac has 15 million tons of high-grade proven reserves in area...
...dosages" of strontium 90 can cause bone cancer and leukemia in animals, "so we should not casually dismiss the possibility of harmful results from fallout." But the risk appears to be remote. Reason: there is no present evidence that people living at high altitudes or on land with heavy uranium deposits are more susceptible to these diseases than anyone else. In sum, the risk to man from H-bomb testing "is extremely small compared with risks which persons everywhere take as a normal part of their lives...
...were only negative, his value to the Commission would be questionable. As it is, however, Murray has been partially responsible for much of the AEC's constructive work. Murray helped to revoke Dixon-Yates, set forth a realistic proposal for peaceful atomic development, and established an incentive system for uranium procurement...
...battle begins. It rages within the four relentless walls like a chain reaction in a uranium furnace. Time and again a scene starts to run wild; but just at the last instant, Scriptwriter Rose inserts the dramatic equivalent of a cadmium rod-a space of near inactivity. And the excitement simmers down to the point where he can safely start it up again...
From one of West Germany's principal nuclear-research centers, the Max Planck Institute of Physics in Göttingen, came an unexpected rejoinder. Led by four Nobel Prizewinners-among them 77-year-old Otto Hahn, the first man to split the uranium atom-18 scientists proclaimed their "great worry" over Adenauer's proposal. One hydrogen bomb, they warned, could render the whole Ruhr Valley "uninhabitable." Worse yet, "the entire West German Republic could be rubbed out" by spreading radioactivity. The hooker: all 18 pledged themselves not to help the West German government...