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...last week to make some solid news. The AEC reported that it is accelerating its program to develop an atomic-powered plane, announced "greater strides during the first six months of 1955 than in any earlier half-year . . . with the promise of nuclear-powered flight considerably brightened." A-plane reactor work is under way at Oak Ridge, Tenn., Evendale, Ohio and Fort Worth, Texas; new facilities will soon be built at Middletown, Conn. "Construction of the aircraft nuclear propulsion test area 'for testing aircraft reactors ... is nearing completion...
...Sent to the Senate a bill authorizing a $30 million atomic-powered ship. The vessel would take longer to build than the one requested by President Eisenhower (who contemplated the use of a Nantihistype reactor) and would carry passengers as well as freight...
...beam, will cost about $53 million complete; it is slightly leaner, longer and more expensive than the Nautilus, the world's first atomic-powered submarine (TIME, Jan. 11, 1954). The drastic differences are inside: to further nuclear development, the Navy deliberately chose two distinct, competitive types of atomic reactors to power steam turbines aboard the two vessels. Unlike the water-cooled thermal reactor on the Nautilus, the Seawolf's high-speed reactor will be cooled by liquid sodium, will create more heat and energy and burn more nuclear fuel...
Within six months the reactor and more than 1,000,000 other necessary items will be installed aboard the Seawolf. Then the green-and-black sub will be taken on sea trials by her 100-man crew, skippered by young (37), Virginia-born Commander Richard B. Laning, a veteran of both carrier and submarine warfare in the Pacific. Like the Nautilus, the Seawolf should be able to speed at more than 25 knots under water, and to cruise thou sands of miles without refueling...
FIRST ATOMIC POWER for U.S. commercial use will be sold by the AEC to New York's Niagara Mohawk Power Corp. Power will come from the AEC's land-based experimental submarine reactor at West Milton, N.Y., will drive a 10,000-kw. generator, supplying enough electricity to STVC a city of 20,000. Cost to Mohawk: 3 mills per kwh, about the same, as paper mills and shoe companies, which have small hydroelectric plants, charge local utilities for their excess power...