Word: aec
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Such fish are not very dangerous. According to the AEC, a man would have to live on them for years before he felt ill effects. Still, the AEC has played safe and forbidden fishing for a considerable distance downstream from Hanford...
Radioactive fish are not the main problem; water free of dissolved solids is essential for other reasons too. In its search for the best place for its new plant, the AEC narrowed its choice to a site on the Red River near Paris, Texas and the site on the Savannah. The two rivers are equally muddy, but silt can be removed by a comparatively cheap filtering process. The Red River, however, carries a large amount of dissolved material which would have to be removed by a chemical process costing $40 million a year. The Savannah gets its water from...
Eventually, says the AEC, the fish in the lower Savannah may become a bit radioactive, but not as hot as they would be if the river were less pure...
...AEC asked Radio Corp. of America to design a special apparatus to copy pages from books or bound periodicals and send them quickly over a wire. Last week the new high-speed "facsimile transmitter" started working. A chemist at Y-12 site called the library at X-10 site and asked for a two-page article in a chemical journal. In 4½ minutes a copy came out of a receiving apparatus at Y12. No matter how hot the copy might get, it need never contaminate...
...data released will not be up to date. The newest reactor to be described in detail is HYPO (for High Power), the Los Alamos "Water Boiler" which went into operation in December 1944. A lot of uranium has fissioned since then. In the guarded centers of the AEC's "technical areas" are more advanced reactors. But HYPO is effective enough, comparatively cheap and simple...