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...first atomic energy reactor specifically designed for medical treatment and research is to be built for the University of California at Los Angeles. Its heart will be a foot-thick sphere of stainless steel containing uranyl sulfate enriched with uranium 235. Operating normally at 5 kw., the reactor will "burn" one ounce of fuel in 20 years, will provide gamma rays and neutrons for treating cancer patients as well as radiation for other research...
...portentous rumor is spreading fast through U.S. atomic industry: that a "controlled fusion" (hydrogen) reactor has been or may soon be achieved. Nothing has come into the open, and Atomic Energy Commission officials refuse, sometimes nervously, to answer questions touching remotely on the subject. But the rumors have enough substance to worry electric power companies. In the absence of assurances to the contrary, some of them are afraid that the fission (uranium) power plants they intend to build in the near future may be hopelessly outmoded before they are finished...
...first Army Package Power Reactor, a small nuclear power station that can be taken apart and airlifted to its destination, will be in operation by 1957, it was announced last week by Alco Products Inc. Alco and Manhattan's Stone & Webster Engineering Corp. will start building the $2,096,753 plant this year at Fort Belvoir, Va., where it will be used to train Army engineers in atomic power-station construction and maintenance. The reactor, housed in a vapor-tight steel shell, will turn water into steam, light 600 houses. A single charge of atomic fuel will...
ATOMS-FOR-PEACE plans are developing so fast that General Electric Co. will launch the first sales campaign for nuclear research reactors this month. G.E. will send sales engineers to universities, factories, and research companies to peddle a nuclear line, e.g., a 50-kw. "swimming-pool" reactor, a 5,000-kw. heavy-water reactor...
...Lawrence R. Hafstad, 51, first chief of the Atomic Energy Commission's reactor development division, was named head of General Motors research division, replacing Vice President Charles L. McCuen, 63, who will retire this year. With G.M. anxious to make use of atomic power, automen believe that Hafstad has been hired to devise an atomic engine...