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...There it is," said Project Manager John West. "The EBWR is on the line." The EBWR is the Atomic Energy Commission's Experimental Boiling Water Reactor at Argonne National Laboratory 25 miles southwest of Chicago, and Congressman Carl T. Durham of North Carolina, chairman of the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy, had just thrown a switch that put the reactor into operation...
Argonne's new reactor will produce only a trickle of power (5,000 kw.), but it is not intended as a commercial source of electricity. The first completed of the AEC's five experimental power reactors, it was designed specifically to evaluate one of the many approaches to the problem of cheap nuclear power...
...reactor is housed in a dome-roofed steel building whose purpose is to keep radioactive matter from escaping into the air in the unlikely event of an explosion. Its nuclear core, enclosed in a thick lead and concrete shield, contains fuel elements whose active material is natural uranium and uranium slightly enriched with fissionable U-235. Among the fuel elements circulates ordinary water, which acts both as moderator (to slow neutrons down) and as a heat-absorbing agent...
...periodicals in the members' libraries, organized a joint adult education program with an enrollment of 7,000. Last week member deans and presidents added other projects, e.g., a plan by which six or seven of the smaller campuses would share the cost and use of an atomic reactor, and another to enable five colleges to share a common radio station...
ATOM-JET ENGINE for nuclear planes has been tested successfully by the Atomic Energy Commission, which powered a laboratory turbojet engine solely on heat generated by experimental reactor. Said AEC: "A significant advance toward the ultimate goal of achieving atomic-powered flight...