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...URANIUM HUNT will be started by Texas Co., 14th biggest U.S. industrial company. The oil company will form a new $6,000,000 firm with two other smaller companies (New Jersey Zinc Co., Shattuck Denn Mining Corp.) to lease several hundred square miles of potential uranium lands in Arizona, New Mexico and southern Utah...
...URANIUM will continue indefinitely as the primary fuel for peaceful uses of atomic energy, predicts Atlas Corp. President Floyd Odium, and widespread use of thorium is years away. By 1965, he estimated, the U.S. will need 4,000,000 tons of uranium ore yearly, far more than is being mined today...
...elements were formed when neutrons from the explosion hit atoms of uranium 238 and were captured by its nucleus. In the case of Element 99, the U-238 captured 15 neutrons and emitted seven beta particles (electrons). Each beta particle emitted meant that a captured neutron had changed into a proton. So the U-238, which had 92 protons and 146 neutrons, turned into Element 99 with 99 protons and 154 neutrons. To form Element 100 (100 protons and 155 neutrons), the U-238 captured 17 neutrons and lost eight beta particles. The scientists suggested that Element 99 be named...
...heavier elements can probably be made by the neutron-fattening process or found in bomb debris. One of them has been: Element 101. But all of these atomic monstrosities will be short-lived. The forces that hold nuclei together do not seem to work well above the weight of uranium. The outsized atoms either fission (split) spontaneously or turn into lighter elements by radioactive decay...
EXTRACTING FUEL. New techniques, for extracting thorium and uranium from ordinary granite were revealed by U.S. scientists. One ton of granite would yield uranium and thorium with the energy equivalent of ten to 15 tons of coal...