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...years ago, in Rowe, Mass, (pop. 260), a one-store mountain town on the Deerfield River not far from the old Mohawk Trail, they put up a brand-new nuclear reactor that turned out to be one of the U.S.'s largest. Owned by the Yankee Atomic Electric Co., a combine of a dozen New England utility firms, the reactor is worth $57 million; last year it hummed out more than a billion kilowatt-hours of electricity. It is by far Rowe's biggest industry, and Postmaster Wendell Bjork-who owns the town's general store-estimates...
Last week Rowe's reactor became a pawn in disarmament negotiations in Geneva. The U.S. announced that henceforth the reactor would be open to inspection by the International Atomic Energy Agency, an 86-member organization set up in 1957 as part of Dwight Eisenhower's Atoms for Peace plan. Adrian S. Fisher, U.S. delegate to the 17-nation disarmament conference, explained that I.A.E.A. inspection of Rowe's reactor will be a permanent arrangement "whether or not other states reciprocate." Fisher pointed out that three smaller U.S. reactors-two at Brookhaven, N.Y., and one at Piqua, Ohio-have...
...French physicians, led by Dr. Georges Mathé, got the idea from the emergency treatment improvised in 1958 for victims of a reactor accident in Yugoslavia-five nuclear scientists who got what would ordinarily have been a fatal overdose of radiation. Four were pulled through and are still doing well, thanks to injections of bone marrow. The radiation that almost killed the patients had made them able to accept other people's marrow cells, instead of rejecting them through nature's familiar "immune reaction...
...reactor will sink toward the center of the earth, moving in a bubble of molten rock. Pressure on its sides will rise enormously, but Adams is not afraid that it will be crushed; it will have no inner cavities to collapse. He figures it can penetrate about 20 miles before pressure and temperature get too high for its comfort. Then it will automatically start to rise...
Adams estimates that a needle reactor will need about three months to drop 20 miles. He thinks the best place for a trial run would be one of the rock salt domes that poke to the surface along the Gulf of Mexico shore; the needle reactor should bubble through them as carelessly as a skindiver. Later models can tackle the sterner granite and basalt that form most of the rest of the earth's crust...