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...town of Guernica, twelve miles northeast of Bilbao, is the ancient seat of Basque democracy. At the sacred Oak of Guernica (now a dried old stump), the Kings of Spain used to swear to protect Basque rights, whereupon the citizens would confer on the sovereign the title of Senor de Vizcaya...
Nuclear Knowledge." They will also gag the much larger Institute of Nuclear Studies which is being set up at Oak Ridge by an academic cooperative of Southern universities. But in a year or so, Oak Ridge scientists hope, gags will be cut away, and students can go out into the world as missionaries of the Atomic...
Present piles (at Oak Ridge, Hanford and Chicago) are kept cool, but power piles will run at high temperature. Among the reacting uranium rods of a power pile will circulate a chemically inert gas, hot as a dragon's breath, deadly with radioactivity. This will heat a conventional boiler, yielding high-pressure steam, which, the scientists hope, will not be too radioactive to use in a turbine...
Isotope Rush. One group of Oak Ridge scientists is already doing a growing business in radioactive isotopes. Every week, with elaborate precaution, they pull a lead plug from a hole in the massive concrete shield around the Clinton pile. Out comes a graphite bar studded with little aluminum cans of chemicals which have been exposed to the storm of neutrons raging inside the pile. These contain the isotopes for which the world of science is clamoring. Sealed in heavy lead shipping cases, they are rushed to hospitals and research laboratories...
...Oak Ridge scientists are sure that isotopes will have an enormous effect upon both science and industry. Most immediate use is as "tracers": delicate radioactive tags which allow a chemical substance to be followed step by step through an industrial process or the human body. Isotope enthusiasts believe that the tracers will explain the mysterious reactions inside living cells...