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Three weeks ago the Atomic Energy Commission cleared Frank Graham, President of the University of North Carolina, for important work at the Institute of Nuclear Studies in Oak Ridge. The decision reversed a recommendation of the Commission's own Security Office. It kicked up a load of complaints and charges of "laxity" by columnists, and commentators. And it threw some much-needed attention on the Government's entire security program...
Ordinary steel rings are put in the AEC's atomic pile at Oak Ridge and "cooked" for a month in neutrons. The process changes part of their normal iron into radioactive iron 59. Packed in 300-lb. lead cases, the "hot" rings are shipped to Richmond, Calif, and stored in a thick-walled closet (called "the cave") in the Research Corp.'s basement...
Locks & Winds. At present, AEC experts explained, this fiercely dangerous stuff is well locked up. The Clinch River flowing near Oak Ridge is less radioactive than many mineral springs whose water is highly prized for drinking. The air outside the Oak Ridge plant is safe too. A man moving to Oak Ridge would get increased radiation equivalent only to the increase he would get (from cosmic rays) if he moved from sea level to an altitude of 5,000 feet, e.g., Denver...
...victim is informed, through the intermediary of the prepositor of the week, that "The headmaster wishes to see him after twelve . . ." He will be met by the school messenger (usually an ex-soldier of the regular army), who leads him up to the ancient, oak-paneled room where stands the famous block...
...steel plant in Latin America (No. 1: Brazil's Volta Redonda). Where fishermen had spread their nets to dry, there was an 890-ft. dock. Modern brick houses for 4,000 workers were springing up in a planned industrial city which Chileans proudly compared to Oak Ridge...