New Reactors Promise To Keep U. 5. ' Way Ahead In Atomic Science Race By PETER EDSON KCA WuhlafWn CarrwpandMit WASlilNGTON-NEA-Th United States now hti at least nine atomic reactors in operation. It bai five mora iinder eoiutruction j nd it doing research on four more. This total of 11 reactors planned, building and in operation represents America's lead in the peacetime develpment of atomic energy. ' The American battery of IS re actors should be completed and in operation by 1953. It represents an expenditure of (45,000,000 up to last June 30, with a planned program for 1145,000,000 to complete con struction within the next three years. . In addition to this $190,000,000 total, there should be added rt- aearch costs of 87,000,000 from fis cal 1949 through 1951. This brief summsry of America's atomic energy "plant" is revealed for the first time in complete form In the seventh semi-annual report of the Atomic Energy commission, just sent to Congress. The figures given above do not include operating costs nor com plete installations at Hanford, Wash., where plutonium is made for the atomic bomb. The Smyth report published in 1945 revealed that three reactors were in opera tion at Hanford. The seventh report reveals only that a new reactor to produce plutonium was completed at Hanford last year. This would , bring the Hanford units to four in operation. Total cost of the Hanford development has been estimated at S338.000.000 as of last June 30. Power Development Advances , The other reactors listed as in operation include two at Argonne Laboratory, Chicago, one at Oak Ridge, Tent)., and one at Los Al amos, N.M. AU these reactors have what is known as slow, or thermal neutron energy range. They are in effect water boilers, meaning that they are kept cool by circulating water through the reactor. The neu trons in these reactors are slowed down by graphite moderators. Dur ing the war these installations were called piles, but the name reactor is in more general use now. In addition to these slow reac tors, there is one fast neutron plu tonium reactor at Los Alamos, in which fission energies above sev eral hundred thousand electron volts are created. It ia in the nine new reactors in various stages of research, design and actual construction that the dreams of harnessing atomic ener gy for useful power development are beginning to unfold. Late last year construction was begun on an experimental breeder reactor at the AEC's new testing station, near Arco, Id. It is sched uled for completion this year. This reactor is designed to test the feas ibility of transmuting' non-fissionable material into fissionable ma terial. Other Aids Assured Another materials testing reac- also being put under construction this year at the Idaho testing cen ter. It will be of particular use in testing materials for the design of aircraft propulsion reactors. At West Milton, N.Y., construc tion will be begun this year on the first intermediate range reacton It will be a combined power and breeder reactor, producing fission able material and then using the heat to drive electric generators of conventional design. But this re actor will also use a molten metal coolant. The fourth reactoV to be started this year will be a slow neutron, land-based model suitable for pro pelling a ship or a submarine. Un der research are plana for - still another Navy reactor for ship pro pulsion. It will 3 an intermediate energy, liquid metal-cooled reactor. Still further advance in design ia being planned for what ia describ ed aa a homogeneous reactor. It will in effect be like a continuous process blast furnace for the pro duction of iron or glass. In this reactor, instead of the fuel, moder ator and coolant being separated, as at present, they would be mix ed for continuous production of f fissionable material. Amtrican Atrilnt Fact Strike) Of Ground Union NEW YORK, March 1-41&A nationwide strike of ground crew men against the American airlines started here early today. The CIO transport workers union said the stoppage would affect 4, 600 aupply and maintenance work era in 34 citiea acroaa the country. The company has said it will try to maintain flight schedule, de spite the atoppage. Negotiations between the com pany and union collapsed laat mid night. A contract, which expired last Dec. 31, has been extended until today. The TWU seeks a 20-cent hourly wage Increase, a job security claus and other benefits. Msintensnce workers earn from $1 02 to $2.14 an hour; mechanics get from $1.58 to $1.90, and inspec tors' pay rangea from $1.96 to $2.14. Surplus Of Wheat Tops Year's Need WASHINGTON, Mar. 1. CP) Uncle Sam already has more wheat stored in his vast .pool of farm surpluses than Americans eat in a year. The government holdings total about 530,000,000 bushels, the agri culture department said today. By comparision, about 500,000,000 bushels of wheat are consumed each year in the form of flour, breakfast cereals and other wheat food products. ' The wheat is only a part of a vast stockpile of avrplus farm products stored under producer price sup port programs, in which the fed eral treasury has an investment of more then $3,500,000,000. Altogether, the government had more than one billion bushels of grains and oilseeds, including whest, corn, rye, barley, grain sorghum, rice, oats, flaxseed, and soybeans. Another big item is a billion-dollar surplus of cotton. A farm bill the senate passed yesterday would allow larger plantings of wheat and cottun un- tor in the slow neutron range is 1 der government program. STATU! SITI CHOSIN WASHINGTON. March 7.-UPI-The atatue of Marcua Whitman, pioneer northwest missionary, will stand between those of Robert Ful ton and Gen. Joe Wheeler of the Confederate army. Washington's two senators pick ed a aite for the state'a first en try in the national hall of fame and will recommend approval to the congressional joint committee on the library. SUBSTANTIAL CLUf SEATTLE, March 2. UP) "It was a bald robbery." police mused todsy as they noted the loot ob tained by someone who smsshed the display window of a local cloth ing store. "We ought to catch him red-beaded." The loot; one red wig. nothing else waa touched. Jews, Arabs About To Sign Treaty Of Non-Aggression JERUSALEM, March I(.TIs rael and Hashemite Jordan appear ed today to be on the verge of aigning a non-aggression pact to end the tension that has gripped divided Jerusalem aince the Arab Jewish war ended in 1948. Informed sources said that se cret peace negotiations which have been going on spasmodically for many weeks now have reached the point where the governments of both countries are considering terms of proposed treaties. While it is still too early to apeak of formal peace treaty, these sources said, a proposed non-aggression pact has been drafted and submitted to the Israeli and Jordan cabinets. The non-aggreasion pact would replace the armistice agreement concluded in Rhodes last year after mediation by United Nations con ciliator Ralph Bunche. Last year's armistice contained an agreement in principle to aettle differencea over free access to "trouble spots" in the Jerusalem area. These trou ble spots were listed as: 1. The Hebrew university and Hadassah hospital on Mount Sco pus, which is held by Israeli forces but separated from Jewish Jeru salem by the Arab quarter of the city. 2. Use of the' traditional road from Jerusalem to Bethlehem. One- third of the road is held by Israel and two-thirds by Jordan. 3. Access to the wailing wall, traditional Jewish shrine, in the old city now held by Jordan forces. 4. 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