Word: uses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Howard University's Professor John B. Johnson Jr., was given by an eminent interracial group of specialists. In the mornings they talked in highly technical terms to fellow specialists; afternoons they tackled the general practitioner's problems. "After all," said Dr. Johnson, "there's no use having ophthalmologists if the G.P. doesn't recognize glaucoma in time to send the patient to the specialist before he goes blind...
...dispose of atomic waste is to use it. By reprocessing, some of it can be turned into isotopes for use in medicine, agriculture and industry. A reprocessing plant is already being set up at Oak Ridge. And the House Committee on Science and Astronautics last week reported on another use for atomic wastes: inserted in modified grenades, leftovers from nuclear reactors could be lobbed across enemy lines. The small releasing blast would do almost no damage to roads and real estate. But the radioactivity would, within a reasonably short time, bring death to every person within a wide area...
Nuclear reactors can be made in many ways. Some look good on paper but turn out to be impractical in actual use. In its effort to develop low-cost nuclear power, the Atomic Energy Commission has long experimented at such places as Brookhaven National Laboratory on Long Island, with new liquid reactor fuels-a low-melting alloy of U-233 and bismuth, a solution of uranyl sulfate, and others. But AEC soon discovered that the program was leading only to prohibitively expensive means of obtaining competitive electrical energy, and last week it announced a shift in emphasis: funds...
...fissioning U-233 produces more than enough neutrons to maintain the original chain reaction. If these extra neutrons are captured by thorium, the reactor will produce more U-233 fuel than it can use. The AEC thinks this breeding factor is the key to cheap nuclear power. If a breeding reactor such as the one being planned for Oak Ridge were to start operation in 1959, it could be expected to produce enough material to fuel a duplicate of itself...
...prices and regulate trade, roly-poly Economics Minister Ludwig Erhard last week announced a stiff tax on fuel oil: $7.14 per metric ton (about $1 per bbl.). The punitive tax, which Erhard himself describes as a "sin" against his free-market theories, is designed to discourage the use of oil, thus ease Germany's steadily mounting coal surplus of 17 million tons...