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...reactor is housed in a dome-roofed steel building whose purpose is to keep radioactive matter from escaping into the air in the unlikely event of an explosion. Its nuclear core, enclosed in a thick lead and concrete shield, contains fuel elements whose active material is natural uranium and uranium slightly enriched with fissionable U-235. Among the fuel elements circulates ordinary water, which acts both as moderator (to slow neutrons down) and as a heat-absorbing agent...
...Stanrock Uranium ($95.2 million), to begin by October...
...snow-covered wilderness north of Lake Huron, Canada's uranium industry came of age last week. The occasion was the official opening of two big mines. Algom-Quirke and Algom-Nordic, in the world's richest uranium field, the Blind River camp. The mines were opened by Rio Tinto Mining Co. of Canada Ltd., a subsidiary of the 84-year-old British mining firm, Rio Tinto Co., Ltd. of London, which acquired them along with other Blind River properties from Brooklyn-born Joe Hirshhorn for $60 million in cash and securities. At peak the mines will soon...
...Blind River field is Rio Tinto's. The mine which many geologists say has probably the biggest (136 million tons) reserve of uranium ore in the Western world is Consolidated Denison Mines Ltd., under the control of Latecomer Steve Roman. He expects to begin production next month, holds $201.2 million in government contracts...
...Stanleigh Uranium ($90.5 million), to begin by the fall...