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URING the last ten years mankind has acquired several new accomplishments:-
To blow up cities and people much more efficiently using the powers of the atomic nucleus, and
To use penetrating radiatious for extending our knowledge of the laws of nature or fur
medleal treatment, or for caus int injury and death.
Here is the story of what we
learned.
By
1938 the study of the Insides of the atom-the atomie "nucleus"following
ioneer work of was being carried
the
Dn Rutherford,
on all over
the work for the sake of mure knowledge.
Brilliant work
DHE PECULIAR behaviour of
The sun beiden
hard to explain, and a study, started by Fermi in Rome,' was pursued by Hubn In Berlin.
Wonders that may
yet come from
atomic research
By PROFESSOR
R.E. Peicrls CBE. FRS,
President of the Atomic Scientists' Association
There are, however, a great! many engineering difficulties in the way, and in spite of intense research no one has yet built) even a medial plant giving useful. power.
Within the next few years,
IS THE TIP
By
however, we can expect to C. V. R. THOMPSON
see much model plants, and per haps a real power station. And still it may not be a paying pro-
position.
SAN FRANCISCO. WHAT Californians about
W always talk
Electricity from atomic power | stations cannot be much elionpir most are their weather and than the present rate, and may their politics.
well be more expensive.
Some of the people on the ground with the blood, and can used in the near future to nug- about F.DR.'s eldest son James. ground will be injured or killed
by rays produced at the instant
of the explosion, but no danger will remain to anyone entering
the area later.
wafer
outside the
And I found at all the We may, therefore, think of political talk just now is about atomic power an another source another Roosevelt
Back in New York Tal when reserves of coal and oil ate
Le Washington
not hear wo do exhausted, and perhaps to
But there ment supplies.
is an Impressive of number
possips who More specialised used of ato-ready to premise that within mic power are sure to arise. The ten years there will be another need for bulky shielding, usually President Roosevelt in the White thick walls of concrete and lead House with the initial J.
are
or steel, in absorb the dangerous James Roosevelt's present tor- ruys means that no atomic power get is the California governor- plant is ever likely to weigh less ship, to be voted on this nutum. than 100 tons.
Moved far ahead
be detected from
by one of the many body
detretorn ensitive radiation that have been invented.
The amount of radiation usul I of course, far less than would In an under-water explosion cause damage to the patient. the explosion products fet The doctor sees at once how mixed up with he column of far the blood vessels contain that is thrown up, and stagnant blood and how far it is
At the start he was a rank rome will come down to the being rapidly replaced by the
outsider. He was not too popular ground açoin, and my make circulation.
even with the local Democrats. The affected aren uninhabitable
Of course everyone else enflect Another case arises in study- A brilliant piece of work by
for some time,
him "that man Junior." ing fertilisers. To see whether Bahn and his colleagues sup-
And his opponent, the present The suggestion has been made
But if our the clue, which was
statesmen can a chemical is readily taken up by, of course, rules out use plied
trains. Ship Ropublican Governor, Earl War- Frisch and Lise thai an "ordinary" atomic bomb
need only "label" propulsion may be a possibility, pen, was so cognised by
Food that, in two to develop some of the contents of the for- though an engine small enough elections, Democrats, as well as Meltner, then in Senndinavia; can be used to ignite" a masage to steer us clear of war
or other light we shall be able the of hydrogen bambardment iti the
material by heating it to such Properly the benefits of atomie tiper and later place the plants for a ship will probably have to Republicans have voted for him. laboratory of the uraniumi otoni
fantastic temperatures. had not merely chipped a pleer
But this is not a simple pro- The same radio-active mate- This shows whether the and hence be uneconomical, of its central core, tut haut
position. If it succeeded there rials which mng be such an chemical which the plant has Thattered it.
would be in practice no limit to incidious cause of Injury from used dos come frein the fertilis
bomb af hydrogen that the The
smaller or from other sources in the fragments
more the amount Cave spectacular results than had could be set off in this way, um, quantities, a powerful tool for soil.
would be fensible regearch in many delds. been seen in atoma splitting be therefore, It
then to make bombs enormously furc.
in
than power Preater present atomic bomba.
re-
In a matter of weeks there were physleists playing with the almost "Basion" of uranium in any modern physics laboratory.
What excited the experts was the indication of large fragments from a nucleus being thrown around with great force, con- The uranium that Rucleus bad split in two.
An avalanche
WAS SEEN early In 1930 that in this process, paused by neutron bombardment, new which elected neutrons were could sliter
further uranium nuclei.
In suitable conditions might expect an avalanche to
the
enerity.
are,
are like the aloms of ordinary
A plant we
under a radiation detector..
cara or
run on concentrated atomic fuck,
For a worship this might still be of interest, as it would elimina nte refuelling.
Use in planes might one day trend towards bigger planes,
All this in the result of the
progress of science up to ten
They consist of atoms which Plants for power
BUT TO produce all the tracer you are salle ce time in
elements necessary for this between basic science and tun- kind of research
quite sible results is much longer. small piles would suffice.
The front Bne of research in Bigger Installations are neces-
physler has moved far ahend al the
de za know, however, matter in every way save that how much still remains to be they can be recognised by the
before
they send this
will "gamma rays that Idea done
ouit. become reality.
Our research
IN BRITAIN where work on
! atomic. energy been pooled with Amerien's during the war, a good deal of work has been done since at Harwell, Berkshire, and in other places controlled by the versatile Ministry of Supply,
power.
There is
ronic
This gives the scientist the mary if one wants in make atomle ready of the problem of ponsibility to label atoms and study their habits, Just as the habits of birds are studied by putting rings on their feel.
Medical researchers, chemists, many others metallurgists and
DOW learning
lobelled atoms
uranium Assion.
reason no scientifle
The aim of this work is to get why one should not be able to to understand the laws of nature build a plant of the size of, say and to sco what makes things Balterarn Power Station, which consumed uranium rather than tick new conl, nl which would not need
are techniques of tracers (as these are entled), and we unportance of this new tool can probably be compared to the invention of the microscope,
Testing blood
Two piles (ntomir reactors) are
e now in operations at Harwell. They are intended for research and to produce radioactive elc. ments for scientifle purposes,
In principle
such piles also which is one
TO CHOOSE an example:- not only a few alams, but of the three
million atom bombs, but it is clear that millions,
piles are low of blood in un injured limb million millions of atoms, which the present Harwell
and not on a serious scale for bombay now inject a small amount of radiosetive chemical into the in just about
production.
blood streams,
will go which weighable quantity of matter.
It was also seen at once that i was not an easy matter in create the right conditions for such an avalanche.
start, which would soon affect produce pluton materials for A doctor slutlying the circula-
on
trick then
П
a visible
Any selentist could work out the back of an envelope that,
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The me is trus of the pile at the Candian laboratory at igger piles are Chalk River, under construction on a site in Cumberland.
fluerd
the
The concentrated fucis pro- by such piles are if once you could get such an avalanche going, and keep it starting point for the manu- ns Well S going uath
of fucture of bomba pounds uranium had been used up, this work on atomic power. would release In one blow the Another big factory will be Capenhurst, near same amount of energy as burn- bult
tons of Birkenhead,
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If this would work, it would represent a military weapon of unprecedented power. This was war broke
the position when Gut, Now It was no longer search for knowledge; it became a military project.
Storing-up
Young like
Roosevelt
may not look his father he is as bald as sun-kissed grapefruit or spenic like him, but he has in- herited F.D.R.'s love of a fight,
They have never seen such a political campakstu as he has
waged these past three months.
So today Governor Warren is
sving up governing and starting
a similar tour.
'Frisco.
was not to
That makes
FIRST LESSON I learned in
San FrancisSCO
31 call every "native no one could any.
son" boll. Why,
IL
THE SECOND LESSON was THE
never to go for a walk. I am living in un hotel atop one of San Francisco's seven hills. in every direction 100 yards from die front door the streets are like the side of a fair-sized Alte.
Seventy years ngo a genius devised way to travel up and lown the Enzardous streets.
little tram was a cable ear; which gripa
moving cable
people
them any more. So the city wants to scrap hem
But this has caused an outery
wom.cn among
who forming a commitee to save the (Continued on taze 5 Col. 1)
As one sets out on this ex- to be continuously supplied with ploration, it is impossible to say fuel, since a pound of uranium where one will end up and what can produce as much heat na practical powers, if any, will 5,000 tons of conl
come out as by-product. In such In plant the atoking
The work of the next drende plant and the be may bring us anderground, replaced by an atomic pile con- lions as important no that of structul to withstand great heat, atomic energy, but equally, or and this woull raise steam.
The rest of the station, with its turbins, generators, and control gear would look much the same ns today.
|BRITAIN'S
also Meanwhile Rumia has produced an atomic explosion. Evidently Russia, too, has built production plants and overcome many technical difficulties in the design of a bomb.
It is true we do not know the Fize of their factoricu, or how long they have been going,
T
more likely, it may merely get us a little further in satisfying our curiosity about the laws of na-
fure.
STATELY EARMARKED
100 large for modern living, too expensive in taxation and up- keep, more and more of Britain's stately homes are becoming redundant, but their fragments are fire dollar carners,
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tho Duchess of Kent's home have currently joined the dollar sales drive.
Goodrich Court, Hereford was for more than a century the home of the landed Trof- fords but modern house- it unia- hunters considered habitable. Under demolition It yielded stained glass with M
oak and other items for. American customers. In Scot- land old Murthly Castle was always draughty, Impossible to
An export Arm carefully dis- Agecroft has been transplanted sure- mantled It, crated and shipped with great success to a setting
It in sections, and now it is be- of elegance and charm in Vir A Ing reassembled with new ginia and endowed view overlooking Central Park. L00,009
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Other fragments of Earls Pure undergoing a expert similar fate. Morks Hall, one of With all its antique oak heat and dimeult to staff. The
When the impending demoli- We also do not know whether
they exploded on of historie Rufford Abbey, the gadget that
ngents will rush haps too bulky or too dellcat time, knowledgeable
Notts, begins in a few weeks Croome
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to work, and in 1042 the United States Government decid. ed to invest hundreds of millions to make the atomic bomb.
In August 1945 un atom bomb was dropped en the city of Hiroshima, in Japan, destroying the reater part of the city and
However, the Russians de not have any uctunt bomba now. there is le doubt they could soon make some.
causing about 100,000 casualties. Defence problem
A second one caused similar
destruction in Nagasaki,
American
Sinec then the factories have continued, and presumably a fair number of bombs are
In store, of could be readily assembled.
now
'Hydrogen bomb'
WHATEVER one thinks about W the
military value of the bomb, it is clear that an atomie attack against a densely populated country would be # major disaster.
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to buy the the richest Elizabethan
lattice man- beams and
windows. laird of Murthly has now stuff-
the
granite asions in Essex, was dismantled Warwick Prior ise'f has been ed
could be
sum
recently, and the total
walls
with
fetched £5,300. The fun dismantled, packed and shipped dynamite and blown them into
curved and successfully re-created
dol-
in salable fragments. The baronial Daic
picce in chimney No suitable
the New England. With every stone doors and other portions have found for Rufford Abbey as fireplace with the
prayer room brought £600. Aami piece of timbering number- achieved their destiny in
date
1000
over ed to match
350 blue lars. stood. The preservation order
was sold For £80. These prints and photographs, the re- I was defented by the vast
Anno's Cottage required for repairs and adapta prices, however, will ultimately construction men found it
when the dealers complicated Jigsaw puzzle. of be trebed demolition tions. Yet the Hufford will prove more profit- re-sell to the United States. Seven rooms from Itamilton able than outright sale.
Palace alone brought $125,000.
4.090
feet
Ayrshire Inn
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When a
manufacturer discovered Anne Boleyn's cot- would age In Surrey, nothing
Safely put together again, however, there is not a lone t him but to ship it home to I recently went to the demoli-
out of place in
strange tals
Detroit for his private museum. tion sale of Didington 1all, the
medieval emigrant, and it han the other
William hand, former Lord Amherst's home in
For Britain's antiquity is, of selfled down in its new sur- Randolph Hearst once bought One does not envy the job at Norfolk. Dealers bid briskly for
roundings. the atriusic market
Riddal Hal York- tithe barn for a few hundred the Civil Defence chlete whethe heavily carved oak staircase course,
in shire, the mansions of Sutton pounds, shipped It ncross the tapestry, commodity charging hands
Scarsdale, Derbyshire, and Atlantle and then changed his windows Neurogen bomb,"
TOW A NEW factor arises in live to plan for such a situation.
One often hears contradictory minstrel's gallery and 15,000 wai's and doors and
Whitehall, Shrewsbury, have mind. With a millionaire's Kluries about the insidious feel of oak panelling. Today the When a syndicale of Americans
£10,000 Tor alrendy
Poesie been similarly transplanted caprice, he had it dismantled Its power, effects of radioactive roys in
Diding offered aro 018
stone by stone, rafter by rafter, not from the splitting of heavy such a rald,
American buyers. Some of the Nurse's collage, the tiny 16th with success. And why not?
will
a second time and brought back building. century
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to Britain at a cost of atoms, but from combining light
A bomb does indeed produce old pine panciling
bellish
ing, which was in- apartment Ayrshire modern 2
passes £40,000. Burns, mortalised by Robert This is the source from which in its explosion a large quanity
these which block in New York. the sun derives its power; inside of radioactive material,
they were by no means over- Court. pricing. the sun, for example, hydrogen. for some time afterwards con- the Hghtest of all elements, is tinues to give off lethal radia- converted into hellum.
This would draw
enes.
tion.
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Scarcely a ship ever the Statue of Liberty duys without containing
The stately homes of England Statoly Earls Croome
pluces or stairways or fine old were long considered a rich near Worcester, was the home
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or ceilings stored do doors
part of the British Inheritance. of the Earls of Coventry
In its packed. A string of Adam Are Now that so many of them have the not deter our customers. 200
Now To do this, one has to over-
over
years. But the bomb explodes in
New old age, half-timbered Agccroft pinces from blitzed buildings in become white elephants, come the strong repulsion that tries to prevent the close ap-
glittering imagines that even their former the air. ns It did in Japan; Metropolitan Museum of
actually bought it Hall found itself in the midst Grosvenor Square, a these dangerous York has
Lancashire Indus- chandelier from the Duke of owners would surely approve proach of any, two atoms, and the source of
complete with of n grimy
past Buckingham's former palace at the sale of a few we can spare this means that one has to work rays is carried up with the flame drawing room,
Adama the top of the the
celling polished trial area, Lovers of the
even pine fireplaces to help replenish Britain's do)- win- shook their heads at the neigh- Stowa at temperatures and pressures anti smoke to
be spared from Jur reserves. similar to those near the centre atmosphere, where It does not Boor, painted wainscots,
dows and walls. Plece by pieco bouring development. Yet today which could kurt anyone. of the sun.
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