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...attitude toward Brazil's mineral resources ("The oil is ours!"). Months ago this alliance of extremes, which stunts the country's economic growth by barring foreign capital from oil exploitation, began denouncing exports of radioactive material to the U.S. (thorium oxide and thorium-bearing monazite sand, no uranium). The showdown came last week, when the Security Council, loaded with nationalistic armed forces brass, adopted a military-dominated commission's recommendations that Brazil suspend exports of radioactive minerals and end the joint-exploration treaty with the U.S. President Kubitschek meekly gave the nationalistic generals their way. Still...
Larger models of the heavy water-sodium reactor (50,000 kilowatts and up) can be fueled with natural uranium. This is an important advantage for sales outside the U.S. So far, the most efficient reactors have demanded enriched uranium, made only in the U.S., Britain and Russia. Many countries want nuclear power, hate becoming dependent on the great powers for fuel. If they use natural uranium they can get fuel from many independent sources...
...URANIUM DEAL will give Floyd Odium's Atlas Corp. foothold in Millionaire Charles Steen's mining (Mi Vida mine) and milling (Uranium Reduction Co.) empire. After year of maneuvering, Odium bought 30% interest in $8,000,000 uranium mill being built by Steen's Uranium Reduction Co. at Moab, Utah. In return for share in mill, Odium will cancel plans for his own mill near by at La Sal, Utah...
...PRIVATE URANIUM processing proposal will be sent to Atomic Energy Commission by Koppers Co. Inc., and Kennecott Copper Corp. They will ask AEC for permission to jointly finance and operate first non-Government atomic "feed-materials" plant, producing up to 5,000 tons of uranium salts yearly...
Marriage Revealed. Joseph Herman Hirshhorn, 56, fissionable, fabulously successful Brooklyn-reared uranium promoter, exuberant art collector (TIME, July 25, 1955); and Mrs. Mildred Hawley Heide, 37; in Baltimore...