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...Seawolf, which will take ten months to finish, will be powered by an improved atomic reactor of higher speed than that used on the Nautilus. Both boats, Secretary Anderson explained, will be faster and more powerful than any undersea vessels ever built. Said Anderson: "For the first time in history, the Navy will have the ideal vessel to send under the sea to combat enemy submarines lurking in the depths...
...left will be what kind of light waves to use as a standard. The Germans favor light given off by atoms of a krypton isotope. The Russians prefer cadmium 114. U.S. scientists would like to use mercury 198, which they have been making out of gold in a nuclear reactor...
...start of World War II, four of the five scientists who applied for the patent had escaped from Mussolini's Italy and come to the U.S. Soon both they and their patent vanished underground. The slow neutron process was the basis of the early nuclear reactors; without it, there could have been no plutonium. Enrico Fermi saw his neutrons fire up the first reactor at Chicago...
...most corporations, the cost of building a full-scale atomic power station will be prohibitively high-anywhere from $50 million to $100 million. Even groups of companies, working together, may need Government aid, not only in financing the reactor but in the form of a purchase contract for all the plutonium produced. At present, plutonium is the end product of a reactor, and the byproduct is heat. In commercial use, plutonium would be the byproduct, and heat from reactors to drive turbines to make the electricity would be the end product...
...which has already spent $250,000 investigating commercial uses of atomic energy, estimates that it would cost $60 million to build a 125,000-kw. atomic power plant (about one-tenth of the power used by greater Boston). Of this sum, $44 million would be the cost of a reactor for plutonium production and could come from the Government; the rest would be for the heat-transfer units, turbines, etc. for the power plant, and might come from private industry...