NUCLEAR NEWS FROM ATOMICS INTERNATIONAL Continuing Progress at AI Advances Nuclear Technology For Many Tasks, in Many Lands Highlighting progress in the many and diversified reactor programs at Atomics International are significant developments in the two major power reactor approaches underway by AI for the Atomic Energy Commission—the Sodium Reactor Experiment and the Organic Moderated Reactor Experiment. Forecasts Confirmed. On April 25 the 33rd fuel element was introduced into the SRE, and sustained nuclear fission was achieved. The critical loading confirmed earlier calculations. On July 12 heat from the SRE reactor was used by the Southern California Edison Company to generate electricity. This power was fed over utility lines to Edison consumers. Data obtained from the SRE will be used in the design of a 7 5 , 0 0 0 kw Sodium R e a c t o r p o w e r plant p r o p o s e d for the C o n s u m e r s Public Power District of Nebraska. Power A s h o r e , Propulsion Afloat. Similar studies are starting on the O M R E , recently c o n s t r u c t e d at the AEC's National Reactor Testing Station in Idaho Falls. This program will assist in the design of two 12,500 kw power stations, one in Piqua, Ohio, and another in a Latin American country. At the same time, the Organic Moderated Reactor is under study as a most promising nuclear propulsion system for the special needs of supertankers. Reactors for the World. The Armour Research Reactor, first private industrial nuclear facility, is now being followed by a stream of similar research reactors—for Japan, D e n m a r k , West Germany, West Berlin and Italy—cons t r u c t e d , shipped, and installed by Atomics International. AI's latest development is the compact Laboratory Reactor, available on a short delivery schedule at very low cost to meet the need for nuclear training and research in universities and industrial laboratories.
Critical Moment: On April 25, the SRE achieved sustained nuclear fission. Electricity was generated on July 12.
Destination — Denmark : Nuclear reactor components from AI are hoisted aboard a freighter for Copenhagen. - · — " - • : : · : - .;; -— ;~ -r-~n
For Land and Sea: A versatile nuclear reactor concept—the OMRE.
Nuclear Research in J a p a n : Home of Far East's first reactor will be Japan's Atomic Energy Research Institute.
N e w Laboratory Reactor: Eight-foothigh tank contains fully functional core, coolant and moderator.
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Reactor Hardware for Germany: Components for two German reactors in work at A T O M I C S INTERNATIONAL.
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