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...member of James B. Conant's scientific research and development committee, under which the Manhattan Project was launched to build the Abomb. Later Murphree supervised the design of a heavy-water plant in British Columbia and served as chairman of a group that helped develop centrifugal separation of uranium isotopes. Since World War II he has been a member of the AEC's general advisory committee...
...conscience of the free world must be quickened to the injustice of a divided Germany," he said. Uranium mines in Germany are being depleted for Soviet war industries, youth impressed into an army to reinforce other countries, and prison sentences are mercilessly administered, Conant reported. "The tales of the refugees," he continued, "are the tales of a terrorized population...
...Dramatically demonstrating U.S. willingness to share its assets with other nations, the President, before he returned to Washington, had released $1 billion worth of uranium 235 for peaceful production of atomic power at home and in free nations that cannot produce their own fuel...
Playing and working in Phoenix, Ariz., energetic Inventor Lee de Forest, 82, one of radio's and TV's most illustrious ancestors predicted: 1) the world will run out of fissionable power-producing uranium within several hundred years; 2) a successful fusion reactor, i.e., a tamed H-bomb type of power generator, will never be achieved; 3) it matters not, because solar energy will eventually outshine both fission and fusion sources as man's chief power supply. These,matters settled, Dr. de Forest sounded off on the horrors of present-day radio and TV advertising. "I wish...
...URANIUM SOURCE being developed by Ohio Oil Co. is lignite, or brown coal. The AEC has agreed to buy the uranium concentrate if recovering techniques being tested prove economical. The lignite deposits in North and South Dakotas bear a "significant" amount of uranium, says...