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THE WAYNESVILLE MOUNTAINEER
Newsman at Oak Ridge
Vilness Atom Process
OAK RIDGE, Tcnn., Natural
science has opened the pates to the
constructive new world of neu
cleonics. Here in this war-spawned city
of 43,000 persons, world-famous
atomic research center, a group of
newspapermen last week witnessed
hitherto top-secret laboratory pro
cesses. The occasion was the sale
of the first radioactive isotopes to
the nation's research institutions.
The setting and the story unfold
ed to the first authorized civilian
visitors was like something out of
H. G. Wells.
Hiroshima Anniversary
The event took on added sig
nificance from the fail that it
coincided with the first anniver
sary of the atom bombing of Hiro
shima. It marked the fruition of the first
practical application of atomic en
ergy to the exploration of peace
time fields which are waiting to be
investigated.
The first allotment of radio
isotopes was sold to Halliard Hos
pital of St. Louis for medical re
search purposes.
its industrial potentialities are
believed to compass equally wide
horizons. Dr. K. V. Cowdry. Mar
nard Research Director, received
the millicurie of carbon 14 -- a
speck too small to be seen will)
the naked eye.
Cost of Specimen
The first unit developed weighed
only about one ten thousandth of
an ounce. Its actual production
cost to the Clinton Laboratories
Research Center here, run by the
Monsanto Chemical Company, was
$:i(i7. Handling and shipping costs
brought the total cost up to about
$400.
The half life of this unit of car
bon 14 is estimated from 10.000 to
25,000 years. In other words
starting with the year 11.94U A 1)
the unit if kept intact should he
slill giving out billions of beta part
icles per minute. The amount of
carbon 14 delivered to Dr. Cowdry
was contained in a glass vial about
3 inches long. This was carefully
enclosed in a steel tube which in
turn was enclosed in a lead tube,
all of which was stowed in a plush
padded plywood box about ti inches
high and 4 inches square.
For all its small size, the first
millicurie of carbon 14 to go on
sale represents from 100 to 1,000
times as much of the isotopes as
heretofore made available to re
search in any single cyclotron-produced
order. One millicurie is
that amount of radioactive material
which emits 37,000.000 disintegra
tion particles per second.
How Isotopes Are Made
A radioactive isotope, commonly
referred to as a "radio-isotope'' in
the uranium chain-reacting pile, is
made by placing in the pile a stable
element. This may be in the form
of a metal or a salt or even a liquid
or a gas. It is left in the pile for
a given length of time. This is the
basic process and it applies regard
less of whether the material insert
ed is a fissionable material, such
as uranium, a common salt such as
sodium chlorite, or an ordinary
metal such as iron.
The method is known as the piled
irradiation of the material. The
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pile is a block of cells which looks
like ovens. The block is construct
ed of cement about 15 feet square
a-id about a foot thick. It is also
insulated with a heavy thickness of
lead.
Newspapermen were shown the
process of loading small aluminum
cans of calcium nitrate salt about
the size of a man's index finger
into I he piles w here it is left for
the period of irradiation. While
the pile is being loaded or unload
ed it is not running. This means
that the control rods which stop
the chain reaction are in place.
This is to prevent a dangerous
beam of neutrons from emerging
throughl the oven door.
Dramatic Process
A newspaperman had the thrill
of "slopping the pile." Bells rang,
buzers buzzed and red lights
flashed as the process of irradia
tion stalled with a loud grinding
noise. Spectators and laboratory
personnel galoshed around wet
looted canvas. They were warned
to keep well clear of the hole to
avoid the residual gamma rays as
I hey watched an attendant with
an aluminum 10, foot pole extract
Hie fabulous radio-isotope.
A radio-isotope?
Yes. According to Dr. E. P.
Wigner, research and development
director of the Monsanto Com
pany, an isotope is a form of an
element which is chemically the
same but physically different from
the ordinary element. The former
Professor of Mathematical Physics
at Princeton explained that a radio
isotope is one that has a "death
rate." In other words, its radio
activity is not constant. Its half
life- that is. the moment when its
power begins to diminish may be
anywhere from a minute to 25,000
ears.
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Kngland. he came to this country
he and his brother, H. H. Brimley,
who died in April on Dec. 31,
IHfto -and made a name for him
self -Yet at no time in his life did
he ever make more than $180 per
month When Dr. C. S. and H. H.
left Kngland that cold December
day, they said farewell to their
only brother They didn't think
they would ever meet again But
I hey did 57 years later In 1937
the brother came to Raleigh and
the three old men were boys again.
VVKlili Lindsay Warren is
Comptroller General Kenneth
Royal is Undersecretary of War
(). Max Gardner is Assistant
Secretary of the Treasury R. L.
Doughton is chairman of the Ways
and Means Committee and now
James E. Webb of Oxford is Di
rector of the Budget Bureau Be
careful how you curse Washington,
I'odner, you're talking about our
home folks! Ain't gonna stand fcr
it:
Oh. yes, you've been knowingly
saving that Webb got that position
because of his being in the famous
Gardner Webb family. Nothing to
it no kin -if so, exceedingly dist
ant lie came up the hard way
in Washington worked in the day
linie studied law at night, became
an official for Sperry Corporation,
working with Moran, another Tar
Heel was a Gardner law partner,
which did him no harm, of course
But they say that Webb is entirely
self-sufficient. This appointment,
by the way, caught all political
clairvoyants unawares at least
those in N. C.
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Europeans and Americans figured In
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