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Frederick Seitz, Jr., director of the training program in nuclear physics at Oak Ridge, Tennessee, will deliver the first in a series of lectures on Applied Science, established under the Gordon McKay Endowment Fund, in the auditorium of the Institute for Geographical Exploration tonight at 8 o'clock...
CHARLES H. BLAKESLEE Oak Park...
There will also be two chain-reacting piles: one of low power like the pile now operating at Oak Ridge, Tenn.; the other hundreds of times stronger...
...which edges closer toward a profit each year. Against this claim range the close financial surveillance that Congress has maintained over the TVA, a control that was loosened only by the needs of wartime security. With this same devotion to realities, Senator Taft has seized on the appropriations for Oak Ridge and other top secret plants, and has placed the onus of secrecy on David Lilienthal. If this was secretive "power-hungry" bureaucracy, the Senator himself urged it on the country, calling it "national security...
...Russia tripled her annual research budget (including the atom) to $1,200,000,000. Last month Sergei Vavilov, president of the Soviet Academy of Science, said that 100,000 Russians were now engaged in "scientific work." Soviet physicists had separated U-235 by thermal diffusion (a process used at Oak Ridge, Tenn.) at the Dnepropetrovsk power plant in 1942 before the Nazis destroyed...