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...latest member of the Navy's small fleet of atom-powered vessels. The first Bainbridge could make it just once across the Atlantic on a full load of coal; two-thirds of her sailors did nothing but stoke the boilers. On a single fueling of its reactor, the new Bainbridge will be able to cruise 180,000 miles at top speed-considerably over 30 knots...
Shooting for the Moon. At a time when the orbiting Telstar has created international television and Tiros satellites are predicting the weather, U.S. scientists justifiably scoff at charges that they lack inventiveness. But the consumer has little everyday use for a rocket or a reactor, and many economists fear that so much ingenuity is being spent on space and defense that the consumer sector is shortchanged. More than 70% of the $16 billion which the U.S. invests each year in research and development goes for Government work, with the result that the share of the gross national product spent...
...intellectual freedom into a warm, friendly spirit, first-rate teaching, and a taste for the experimental. Once considered to be a preserve for academically delicate youth from patrician Pasadena, Oxy has in fact long been especially strong in history, diplomacy and world affairs. It installed the first nuclear reactor (in 1958) for undergraduate teaching in Southern California, has such high pre-med standards that graduates are virtually assured of acceptance in medical schools of their choice...
Under the incurious eyes of a flock of wild geese, a portentous countdown ran its course last week on the isolated Essex marshes in southeastern England. Inside a long, concrete control room, white-coated engineers made final adjustments on the No. 1 reactor of the Bradwell nuclear power plant and started delivering electricity to London, 45 miles away. Bradwell and the newly opened Berkeley plant in Gloucestershire are the first fruits of the world's most ambitious atomic power program: Britain's drive to build ten reactors capable of meeting 10% (4,000,000 kw.) of British electricity...
...utility men, who are currently trying out eight different kinds of reactor in search of the most efficient design, tend to question the speed of the British program. They argue that the government-owned British power industry was too quick to freeze on a single type of gas-cooled reactor, and point out that even after Bradwell hits full stride, the U.S. will still produce more atomic electricity (1,001,000 kw. v. 935,000 kw.) than Britain. But the U.S., with its abundant coal, oil and water power, regards its nuclear power program as mainly experimental, and does...