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...lost, a dozen more interesting, better-paying jobs will open up in the making and servicing of machines. Says Tom Watson Sr.: "Automation will develop as all other forms of power. Primitive man had only his hands, then animal power, then wind power-windmills and sailing ships-then came steam and electric power, and gasoline and oil power, and now, atomic power. Not one of these powers ever canceled out the powers we already .had. In every development we made, the original power-manpower-became more valuable than ever. Never in history has man gotten higher rates...
...construction of America's first private reactors. In his casual assumption that free enterprise will naturally prevail in the atomic power industry, Woodbury skims over many decisions that Americans should make now. The atomic power industry will present even fewer elements of risk to private operators than steam-generated power stations. For the government has supplied all the technological research, and it will inevitably maintain sole responsibility for delivery of nuclear fuel to power stations, and disposal of the lethal, radio-active ashes. With the governmental hand so heavy at the helm, it is time to chart the course...
...Zealand government announced last week that the enormous jets of steam that roar out of the ground in the Wairakei district on North Island will be harnessed for a dual purpose. They will generate electricity, and also produce heavy water (deuterium oxide) for use as a moderator in the nuclear power reactors that Britain plans to start building soon (TIME...
Deuterium (heavy hydrogen) is present in all water to the amount of 0.02%, and it can be separated with considerable difficulty by several processes, including fractional distillation. The geothermal plant, financed jointly by Britain and New Zealand, will separate the heavy water from the steam in a special apparatus designed by the British Atomic Energy Authority. Then the steam will run conventional turbines, generating electricity for New Zealand's growing industries...
...control gas production prices in order to control the price of gas as delivered to the customer, then why doesn't it control the price of coal in steam-generating electric plants and the price of copper in telephone wires...