DECONTAMINATION TUB. Costly nuclear equipment contaminated by radioactivity is no longer discarded at the Atomic Energy Commission's Hanford plant in Richland, Wash., but decontaminated by dunking it in this foaming tub. Here a $30,000 piece of nuclear hardware gets dipped in the tub as an operator (left), in a lead-lined cab, controls the procedure. According to General Electric, which operates the plant, the decontamination tub has salvaged hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of nuclear hardware Authenticated News Photo
TANK WITHIN A TANK. A welder completes the outer wall of a tank at Tuscola, III., which will hold 7000 tons of anhydrous ammonia. The tank, being built for U.S. Industrial Chemicals, division of National Distillers and Chemical, will have 2l/2 feet of insulation between its walls (where the welder is standing) to keep the ammonia at - 2 8 ° F. The inner tank is 88 feet in diameter and 56 feet high 98
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DESK-SIZE CYCLOTRON. Pomona College, Claremont, Calif., has a new desk-size cyclotron made by Hughes Aircraft Co. The machine's electromagnet, mounted on concrete supports (right), contains semicircular vacuum tanks where positively charged particles are accelerated. Inspecting the cyclotron are Dr. E. Wilson Lyon (left), president of Pomona College, Frank Seaver (center), a college trustee who donated the machine, and Dr. Edward M. Fryer (right), acting chairman of the college's physics department
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NUCLEAR WORK. The Martin Co. has developed this automatic welder for welding large element components, such as these end support fittings at its nuclear division's plant at Middle River, Md. The plant produces fuel elements and other reactor components and handles the design, fabrication, and testing of complete nuclear power plants, and the development and production of direct-conversion auxiliary power units
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COMMUNICATIONS SATELLITE. A new lightweight communications satellite gets a once-over from James C. Meyer, an environmental engineer, at the Hughes Aircraft plant in Culver City, Calif. Hughes says that if the satellite were placed in a stationary orbit 22,000 miles above the equator, it could handle hundreds of telephone circuits and direct TV transmission. Some 2700 solar cells (small rectangles in the picture) provide power for the satellite JAN.
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