Word: reactors
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Best for Brain. Dr. John Laughlin of Manhattan's Sloan-Kettering Institute reports nitrogen 13 and oxygen 15 highly effective in studying lung diseases. An entirely artificial element, technetium 99, produced by nuclear bombardment of molybdenum in a reactor, is rated by most medical centers as the best for detecting tumors of the brain. Both the gases and technetium have the advantage of short half-lives-that is, they lose half of their radioactivity in hours, or at most a few days. Thus, their radiation is so short-lived that it will not harm the patient exposed...
...Israel's last resort, and an outright rejection could be dangerous. Rather than be outgunned and outmaneuvered eventually, Israel might carry out a pre-emptive strike that could draw Russians and perhaps Americans, too, into a Middle East war. Some observers also note that Israel, with a nuclear reactor in the Negev as a source of enriched plutonium, could build a nuclear weapon in a matter of months. Though the Israelis have vowed that they would not be the first to introduce nukes into the Middle East, would they stick to that resolve if the U.S. failed them...
...Manifold Reactor...
...Another possibility is the so-called manifold reactor and in this case it's a rich one. But this call for enlarging the present exhaust manifold on the engine.... In this case, the engine-in order to control all pollutants that we talked about-takes about 25 per cent more fuel than the present engine. However, this can be done and it does work. Again we have cars built and running today...
Although scientists complain that the Atomic Energy Commission, along with the Department of Defense and NASA, gets a disproportionate share of federal research funds, the AEC itself has had to shut down its molten-salt breeder reactor at Oak Ridge. The Bureau of the Budget simply did not release $3,000,000 authorized for it by Congress. This was especially dismaying to environmentalists, because the breeder reactor promises, eventually, to be the cleanest and most efficient fuel source for electric power...