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...There would be no radioactive fission products. This is important because the safe disposal of this dangerous material imposes a heavy cost burden on a uranium power reactor...
...fusion reactor might not contain a large amount of radioactive fuel, as uranium reactors do. If so, it would be less hazardous. The possibility, however remote, that a uranium reactor may explode and spray the neighborhood with radioactivity is a serious problem...
...fusion reactor should turn out to be successful, the booming uranium mining industry would be threatened with infant mortality...
...sights can be more pleasing to art dealers than the appearance at their doors of Joseph Hirshhorn, a garrulous, hurrying little man with a big cigar. Multimillionaire Hirshhorn (TIME, Feb. 21) works with headlong intensity at his mining interests (uranium, gold, oil), "steals time" every week or so to make a whirlwind visit to a gallery. "I'll be in the middle of a meeting," he explains, "when I'll just get up and tell the boys I've got to go, but I don't say where...
Among Hirshhorn's plans for spending his money usefully is the building of a whole new town near his uranium holdings at Blind River, Canada. "This is going to be an esthetic town, laid out for growth," he says. "I've got a Henry Moore and I'm getting an Epstein, a big one, for the square. I'll have a museum there, too. Maybe the miners won't be different because of the beauty, but their kids will." For Manhattan, he is toying with the idea of starting "a salon where any artist could...