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Giants & Pygmies. The Congo supplies the U.S. with well over half the uranium produced in the non-Communist world; it also mines and exports 75% of the free world's cobalt (essential for jet aircraft engines), 70% of the industrial diamonds. One third the size of the U.S., it is a hot, humid, fecund basin drained by a river system second only to the Amazon in volume. In the east lies Ruanda-Urundi, where the seven-foot Watussi live; in the south lies Katanga, the metalliferous wonderland that fronts on Rhodesia and is the site of Shinkolobwe, the world...
France's High Commissioner for Atomic Energy Francis Perrin revealed that his country is now exploiting four uranium sources, ranging in quality from "poor" to "reasonable." Its first nuclear power plant, at Marcoule, will produce 5,000 kw. of electricity, plus plutonium. In 30 months' time a second, more profitable plant will go to work, with a net production of 20,000 kw. (enough electricity for a city the size of Tallahassee, Fla.)-Moreover, the French have found an "important source" of thorium in Madagascar, are studying nuclear propulsion for ships...
Italy's Carlo Salvetti reported that his fellow scientists have completed plans for a natural uranium reactor in Milan with a production of 10,000 kw. Recently offered a CPs reactor (used to make radioisotopes) and ten tons of heavy water by the U.S., Italy will probably save its own new uranium reactor for later, give research priority to the U.S. model...
...their hardships, Red China's scientists are producing results. From behind the Bamboo Curtain come rumors that significant supplies of uranium are being developed in Sinkiang province for export to the U.S.S.R. For a time, Italian-born Atomic Physicist Bruno Pontecorvo. who left Britain for Moscow five years ago (TIME. March 14). was in command. Some U.S. experts believe the Chinese, besides thinking about atom bombs, are probably in the "active planning stage" in developing nuclear energy to supplement their inadequate sources of power. But even as the captive experts solve the purely scientific side of their atomic projects...
Three years after their first talk, Electrician Pick went out looking for uranium. After months of hardship, he struck it rich near Grand Junction, Colo., became one of the U.S.'s first uranium millionaires (so far, Pick's Delta Mine has made him about $10 million-TIME, Sept. 6). Before long, like many another really rich man, Pick found that the world's less fortunate swarmed toward him at the news of his success; his mail was stacked high with requests for everything from medical aid to a sports car for use in uranium prospecting...