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...atoms all neat round shapes, as shown in the classroom diagrams? Physicist Arthur J. Freeman of the Watertown (Mass.) Arsenal thinks not. Last week, at the American Physical Society meeting at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he presented evidence from recent experiments at Brookhaven National Laboratory, where billions of reactor-bred neutrons were fired at atoms of magnetic iron, nickel and cobalt. According to Dr. Freeman's mathematical analysis, the neutrons bounced off the atoms' electrons in patterns that indicate that the atoms have varying shapes. The nuclei of iron atoms are surrounded by a cloud of electrons...
Brookhaven scientists gave Nick Christofilos a job and appreciation, but he did not stay with them long. He had ideas about the biggest problem in applied physics-how to generate controlled fusion power-and Brookhaven had no such program. In 1956 he took his scheme for a fusion reactor to the University of California, which had become acquainted with his yeasty mind eight years before...
Christofilos now works on his fusion reactor, which he calls the Astron, at super-secret Livermore Laboratory in the green hills southeast of Berkeley. His idea of trapping electrons in the earth's magnetic field grew out of Astron, which is designed to trap ionized particles in a magnetic field in a laboratory rather than on a global scale. Nick's paper proposing Project Argus, written in late 1957, was not published except in classified form, and not all scientists agree that it was the first such proposal. Professor Fred Singer of the University of Maryland is said...
BRITISH ATOM SUB reactor will be built by Westinghouse, first such reactor to be sent abroad. Westinghouse got contract because no British firms build the pressurized water reactor found best for subs. British firms have been concentrating on large generators for power stations...
...TIME, Jan. 26). The Democrats charged that the AEC's plan, which calls for $249 million for atomic power projects in fiscal 1960-more than half of it for the military-actually represents a cut that would provide only $14.5 million in new money for civilian power reactors, v. $74 million authorized last year. AEC would drop six projects intended for 1959, including a 100,000-kw. heavy-water reactor, an experimental reactor fueled by molten salt, a small-scale pressurized water reactor, and three small experimental reactors. In their place, it would add six entirely new projects...