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...million plant in Oak Ridge, Tenn., production of Uranium 235 for atomic and hydrogen bombs has never stopped for a second since the process first began ten years ago. In the 44-acre building, which uses as much power as New York City, thousands of motors pump fiercely corrosive gases through endless microscopic filters in a steady surging flow. No one knows what would happen if the process stopped. Last fortnight, the Atomic Energy Commission feared that a strike of 3,500 employees might cause a ruinous stoppage. But the strike was quickly settled. Last week it became clear that...
This week at K-25, as always since its beginning, the gaseous uranium flowed endlessly, with full crews at work and no fear of breakdown. In Washington the C.I.O.'s Swisher said, with a slight note of surprise: "I think he [Mitchell] understands and appreciates the problems of people who work for a living." Said Mitchell, who clerked in a store, worked in a factory, and went through Depression layoffs before he became a labor specialist: "It is much sounder that people voluntarily go back to work than if they are forced back by an injunction...
This was energy of a wholly different magnitude from any ever observed in atomic particles-more than 1,500,000 times the energy of the particles shot out by the University of California's powerful bevatron, and 50 million times the energy of a splitting uranium atom in an Abomb. The "something," Physicist Schein thought, was most probably an illusive particle called an antiproton (negative proton), which theoretical physicists have long guessed about, but never observed...
...Lake Athabaska Uranium project...
...Uranium. 4. Cobalt...