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...Brookhaven National Laboratory announced this week that it has made some rather scary objects: radioactive sources as powerful as three or four pounds of radium.* They glow in the dark with an eerie blue light and are so dangerous that they must be kept under several feet of water or behind thick lead or concrete shields...
...sources are made by "cooking" cobalt or tantalum tubes (13½ in. long) in Brookhaven's nuclear reactor at Upton, N.Y. There the original metals turn into cobalt-60 and tantalum-182, both of which emit gamma rays with more than 1,000,000 electron volts of energy...
...Brookhaven does not plan to ship its powerful playthings anywhere just yet; they are too dangerous to be allowed off the reservation. But it is inviting industrial scientists to send samples to be exposed to their radiation. Their hot blasts of gamma rays may prove to have valuable industrial properties. They can start or speed up chemical reactions, turn certain liquids (e.g., methyl methacrylate) into solid plastics. Their most valuable application may be in food processing, for their gamma rays reportedly kill microorganisms without heating the food material or making it radioactive...
...backing him now. Chiang may not be a lily of the valley, and neither is Tito. But what is Chiang's record with Communism as compared to Acheson's? Chiang was fighting Communism tooth and toe while we stabbed him in the back . . . BURTON K. DAVIDSON Brookhaven, Miss...
...trouble with such complicated chambers is that they operate only for a brief period after the air has been rarefied. Brookhaven's simple chamber works continuously. It consists of a metal plate standing on a layer of dry ice and covered with black velvet for better visibility. On top of the plate sits an open-ended glass cylinder anywhere from 5 to 17 inches in diameter. A second metal plate with a layer of felt cemented to its under side is placed on the cylinder. On top of the whole apparatus is a tray of water at room temperature...