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...marked SCRAM. Directed the squawk box: "Insert H-6." As the last bar moved into place, an amber smear shot across the gauge, the radiation count soared to a million a second -and an atomic blaze sprang to life. Thus the nation's first large, privately owned test reactor, built by General Electric Co., went into operation last week...
General Electric's new $4 million, 30,000-kw. reactor is the latest step in U.S. industry's epic struggle to harness the atom for peacetime use. Already, the atom is a wonderful servant in many areas of U.S. life. Radioactive isotopes last year saved U.S. industry an estimated $500 million. More than 90% of all tire fabrics and 80% of all tin cans are tested with radioactive thickness gauges. Radioisotopes control quality in cigarettes, find leaks in pipelines, determine wear in metals. In more than 1,700 U.S. hospitals, radiation is used to diagnose disease, treat cancer...
...Vallecitos, G.E. built the nation's first privately owned and operated power reactor next to its new test reactor, which is used for testing fuel and materials for future power reactors. It is building the largest U.S. all-nuclear power station (cost: more than $45 million) at Dresden, Ohio for Commonwealth Edison of Chicago, and a $19.5 million reactor at Eureka, Calif, for Pacific Gas & Electric Co., has been selected to construct nuclear power stations in Switzerland, West Germany and Italy...
...Evendale, Ohio, G.E., the only company doing major work on the atomic-powered airplane, is going ahead at an $80 million-a-year clip in Government contracts. It has developed a direct-cycle engine (in which air is heated by direct contact with a nuclear reactor core), already successfully operated it on the ground...
...crash on take-off or landing with the reactor operating would scatter radioactive material over a wide area...