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The Nome Nugget
Nome, Nome County, Alaska
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US to test atom-powered rockets and planes this fall using small uranium-core reactors, as reported by Dr. H. L. Reynolds at Geneva's Atoms-for-Peace conference. Tests in Nevada on Los Alamos and Livermore reactors; practical plants not imminent.
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GENEVA, (AP)
The United States this fall will conduct tests
of atom-powered space rockets and airplanes,
aimed at developing atom-powered
rockets and planes, an American
scientist
reported
Saturday.
The tests
will be made with
small atomic reactors which hold
promise of being fitted into rock-
ets and planes, said Dr. H. L. Rey-
nolds of the University of Cali-
fornia.
Small reactors have been devel-
oped with uranium cores less than
a foot in diameter. Dr. Reynolds
told the
Atoms-for-Peace con-
ference.
The next
step is
to generate
more power
from
them,
which
could, for example, heat hydrogen
or
other
gases
to
supply
the
thrust for a rocket.
Tests of this nature are sched-
uled in Nevada this fall
on
a
reactor developed at the Los Ala-
mos, N. M., scientific laboratory.
Other tests will be
made
on a
reactor developed
at
the
radia-
tion laboratory
at
Livermore,
Calif., he said.
Dr. Reynolds indicated a prac-
tical
power
plant is
some time
off. He said the present reactors
are not prototypes.
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Geneva; Nevada; Los Alamos, N.M.; Livermore, Calif.
Event Date
This Fall
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The United States will conduct tests this fall on atom-powered space rockets and airplanes using small atomic reactors developed with uranium cores less than a foot in diameter. Dr. H. L. Reynolds of the University of California reported at the Atoms-for-Peace conference that these reactors promise to be fitted into rockets and planes to generate power, such as heating gases for rocket thrust. Tests are scheduled in Nevada on reactors from Los Alamos and Livermore laboratories, though practical power plants are some time off and current reactors are not prototypes.