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Incoming Congress May Give
Atom Job in Civilian Life
By STERLING F. GREEN
WASHINGTON I* - The new
Congress may give the atom a
job in civilian life.
Within two or three years, offi-
cials estimate, a small pioneer
“package” atomic plant could be
producing limited quantities of
electric power for industry.
made cheaply enough to compete
with energy from coal, oil or water
power.
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In five years or less, a large cen-
tral atomic plant could be built,
generating energy by the millions
of kilowatts instead of thousands,
and also turning out plutonium for
atom bombs.
But today there are no plans
to construct either.
Industry is not ready to risk
millions of dollars of stockholders’
money in experimental plants that
hold little promise of profits for
many years. The Atomic Energy
Commission is not yet ready to
divert the money or resources
from defense. “
These proposals and others, how-
ever. are almost certain to be
heard early in the new year be-
fore the Joint Congressional Com-
mittee on Atomic Energy. Rep.
Carl T. Durham (D-NC), outgoing
chairman, has announced be will
ask for hearings quickly on in-
dustrial participation in the atomic
program, now a government mon-
opoly.
NO EASY JOB
It may require anywhere from
10 to 50 years, according to ex-
pert estimates compiled in a re-
port this month by the congres-
• sional committee, before atomic-
generated electric power can be
To shorten the time, officials and
industry experts agree, it probably
will be necessary to gain experi-
ence from the erection and opera-
tion of experimental plants and
prototype reactors. They estimate
the cost at five million dollars or
more for the little ‘‘package" pow-
er plant and 60 to M million dol-
lars for the large plant that would
turn out both power and plutonium.
Pressure is building up on Con-
gress and the AEC to break the
ice—to work out some kind of in-
dustry - government partnership
which will enlist the driving force
of private competition in atomic
development. The idea of a per-
petual government monopoly is not
accepted by AEC, Congress or in-
dustry.
The AEC is writing a report on
its views for the proposed con-
gressional hearings. It also cre-
ated this fall an office of Industrial
development, with orders to plan
for a day when "industry will car-
ry on its own a substantial part
of the national atomic program.”
OBJECTIVES
The immediate objectives are
limited. Real-life prospects do not
Indicate early fulfillment of any
dreams of sutos which operate for
their lifetime on one atomic pill,
or cities which are fueled, lighted
and heated by sn atomic storage
battery, r
Where costs counts little, as in
matters of national security won-
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THE ABILENE REPORTER-NEWS 2 A
Abilene, Texas, Monday Evening, Dee. 29, 1952 PA
Time When Rockets Won't
Return to Earth Nearer
ders are possible. An atomic sub-
marine is on the way and an :
atomic warplane may be in the
al rwithin a decade. These could
lead to atom-powered ocean liners,
air transports and even locomo-
tives.
But atomic reactors are bulky
and costly.
They present enormous problems
in the conversion of beat to power
and in disposal of radioactive
waste. They must be walled be-
hind six feet of concrete or the
equivalent.
L. R. Hafstad, AEC’s chief of re-
actors development illustrates as
follows one flaw in the popular
conception of the atomic age:
Even if the government gave
away power generated from the
atom, the consumer of electricity
could expect a saving of not more
than 25 to 30 per cent on his elec-
tric bill.
PRODUCES HEAT
That is because the reactor is
merely the equivalent of the fuel
box and boiler in a coal-fueled
plant It produces only the heat.
To make electricity requires heat-
transfer equipment (not yet per-
fected for atomic plants), turbines,
generators and the same type of
distribution system used in con-
ventional power plants.
The coal, oil and gas industries
therefore are not quaking in their
boots—even though uranium re-
serves contain 10 times the energy
of U. S oil reserves and a pound
of uranium holds energy equal to
2,600,000 tons of coal. The utility
companies are anxious to see a
start on an industrial atomic pro-
gram.
Management of the program re-
quires unraveling a web of legal
obstacles under the Atomic Energy
Act. Industry would like the gov-
ernment to foot most of the de-
velopmental bills. It wants an as-
sured supply of uranium "fuel''
from the sole owner, Uncle Sam.
The AEC on its side must decide
among a host of vital questions,
whether it now can relax its em-
phasis on military problems suf-
ficiently to delve into civilian mat-
ters; whether it can write terms
under which private interests are
admitted into an industry devel-
oped with public funds; and bow to
subsidize an industry which almost
certainly will need subsidies for a
time, possibly for a long time.
TECHNICAL SIDE
On the technical side, much of
industry is no stranger to the
.atom. Most of the atomic weapons
program — which as an industry
compares in scale with General
Motors or United States Steel—is
managed by private contractors on
a cost-plus basis.
Industry's interest in an atomic
electric power plant has grown and
numerous proposals have been
advanced Most of them rely on
the fact that a reactor can be
built to produce both energy and
1 a new supply of fissionable ma-
terials for sale to the government.
By paying enough for the latter,
| the government could. In effect,
absorb part at the cost of power.
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NEW STATE OFFICIAL - Mrs.
Mary K. Wall (above) will be-
come legislative and reviewing
assistant to Atty: Gen.-elect John
Ben Shepperd when be takes of-
fice in Austin Jan. 1. Mrs. Wall is
now an assistant attorney general
and becomes the first woman ever
to be named to a top administra-
tive post in the department. (AP
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4 Senators
To Talk Over
Filibusters
WASHINGTON « - A strategy
meeting called today by four sena-
tors could result in tying the new
Senate into knots within minutes
after it convenes Saturday.
Sen. Lehman (D-Lib-NY) sched-
uled the meeting in his office to
discuss the feasibility of attacking
the filibuster, the unlimited debate
Southern Democrats employ in the
Senate to talk to death civil rights
bills they traditionally oppose.
Meeting with Lehman -will be
Senators Humphrey (D-Minn),
Douglas ID-Ill) and Ives (R-NY).
All are avowed toes of present
Senate rules which they contend
permit a small minority to filibus-
ter and kill civil rights bills they
say a majority of aenators would’
vote for.
Humphrey conceded that chances
to upset the existing rules are
somewhat small.
Ha said one possible means of
attack to be discussed would em-
brace a motion at the start of the
Jan. 2 session to adopt a new set
of Senate rules. The Senate long
has considered itself a continuing
body and lets its rules stand from
one session to another with only
occasional changes.
Humphrey said the attack, if It
comes, would take this tack:
1. A motion to adopt new rules,
2. An appeal from the presiding
officer’s expected ruling that the
motoin is out of order.
Humphrey told a reporter he has
no doubt that the original step it-
self would provoke a filibuster
which could last for weeks or
months, with Southerners using
Maki ne to delay " votes saner the
motion is withdrawn
Under the existing rules it takes
s vote of at least 64 of the 96
Senate members to limit debate
The Lehman - Humphrey group’s
objective is to amend this to per-
mit 49 or more senators to order
s debate limitation
By ELTON C. FAY
AP Military Affairs Reporter
WASHINGTON un — American
rochet experts and military scien-
tists are moving closer to the time
when they can fire a missile so
high it will never return to earth.
The latest hint of this step to-
ward the eventual development of
an experimental satellite to move
around the earth as does the moon
came in a recent address by Sec-
retary of the Air Force Finletter.
The secretary said he foresees
the development of rocket engines
producing 500,000 pounds of thrust.
With such a propelling force, he
estimated, a speed of 20,000 miles
an hour will be reached. The alti-
tudes reached by such rockets
"will, of course, take them out into
space," he added.
This estimate was somewhat un-
der the 25,000 miles an hour which
many scientists estimate will be
required to accelerate a rocket to
the point where momentum would
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earth’s gravity.
The first objective in creation of
an unmanned, artificial satellite
would be to provide an eye-in-the-
sky with which to watch what hap-
pened anywhere in the Northern
Hemisphere as the satellite orbited
around the earth. A kind of camera
linked electronically to the earth
would serve as the eye, scientists
say.
While scientists think they have
solved many of the major engi-
neering projects for getting an
artificial satellite aloft and on sta- |
tion in space, it would cost big
money. Estmates range from
three to five billion dollars for'
even a comparatively modest un- |
manned satellite.
But the building of a test missile
to prove whether an object can be
fired Into space presumably will
cost considerably less. It probably
is much nearer attainment.
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Denmark Mourns As
Queen Mother Dies
| COPENHAGEN. Denmark —
Denmark’s saddened populace
went into a week of official mourn-
ing today over the death of Queen
Mother Alexandrine, who reigned
at queen during two world ware.
The dowager Queen died yester-
day, 12 days after an operation
and five days after her Tard birth-
" The body of the German-boro
Queen today lay to state to the
| famed Knights Hall at Amalienborg
' Castle, her former residence,
where her son, King Frederik IX
now lives with hit royal family.
. A simple state funeral will take
place next Sunday for the woman
who reigned from 1*12 until her
husband, King Christian, died to
1947.
10,000 Workers
Strike at Singapore
SINGAPORE mn — Ten thousand
workers at Singapore Naval Base.
Britain’s largest maritime estab-
lishment in the Far East, struck to-
day folowing the breakdown of three
months of union negotiations
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