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...grinding, grueling job. On the last four unblazed miles to the minesite, everything had to be carried by hand. Twice the entrance to the mine caved in; both times it took Schwartzwalder two months to clear an opening again. At last, in July 1953, Fred struck a vein of uranium, 70 ft. into the side of the mountain. "The Gei ger counter went right up," he remembers. "I knew...
...factotum of the New York office is ex-Major G. Racey Jordan, who, in 1949, told a strange story of how Harry Hopkins gave atomic information and uranium to Soviet Russia (a House subcommittee later called Jordan's tale "inherently incredible"). More recently, Jordan has been warning citizens that fluoridation of public water supplies is a Russian plot. The petition being circulated by the Ten Million in effect echoes McCarthy's Communist-handmaiden charge against the Watkins committee. It says: "We point out that the Communists and their un-American cohorts, by vicious propaganda, and through willing stooges...
Russian Reservations. The U.S.'s princely package means 220 Ibs. of atomically active U-235-The actual bulk delivered might be much more, since U-235 is mixed with other uranium in various concentrations depending on its intended use. None would be "weapon-grade," i.e., concentrated enough for bombs, and the quantity, when divvied up, was less than a large power reactor would require. But it was enough to run an estimated 30 to 40 research reactors in as many countries. Said Lodge pointedly: "I hope this will once and for all remove from the minds...
Professor Wolfe believes that radioactive elements (e.g., uranium and thorium) in the deep rocks gradually release heat. Since rocks are poor heat conductors, the heat cannot easily escape. After millions of years, the temperature rises until a vast blister of hot, expanded rock has formed. If it works its way to the surface, or if cracks appear, the hot rock may liquefy and escape as a volcanic explosion or a quiet outflow of lava...
...URANIUM STRIKE in Wyoming may turn into one of the biggest yet. Part-time prospector and Machine-shop Operator Neil McNeice hit a rich ore deposit 45 miles east of Riverton. American Smelting & Refining considers the area so promising that it will operate with the AEC a uranium-buying station at Riverton...