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3 8 TWELVE MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Wednesday, January 11, 1956 mite uantities of Thorium for Sale by Cover Metal Offered nment 'Fertile Material' Can Be Transmuted Into Uraniurn-233 Washington (U.R) The gov ernment put on the market to-day a potential new atomic fuel which may multiply the world's ' nuclear power resources. It offered to sell from its stocks limited quantities of thor ium metal for $43 a kilogram (2.2 pounds.) Thorium, a so-called "fertile material," can be transmuted in atomic reactors to fissionable uranium-233. U233 can be used to make weapons or to fuel nu clear power plants. Russia is known to be experimenting with thorium. It has been estimated that suc cessful "breeding" of U233 out of thorum in atomic plants could boost th world's nuclear energy reserves' four to 10 times. Many authorities believe no long-lasting economic atomic power industry can be establish ed without exploitation of thor Sjium. Sleep Price The only fissionable materials now in use are uranium-235 and plutonium.' The Atomic Energy Commission last August an nounced a price ofa $25,000 'a kilogram for U235. It has not yet published the price at which it might buy or sell plutonium. It probably is costlier than U235. Despite its potential value, thorium is not being stockpiled i large amounts by the govern ment. It expects private enter prise some day to take on 'that job. The AEC plans at some future time to use thorium blankets in an advanced reactor at Oak Ridge, Tenn., in the hope of pro ducing U233 in amounts greater than the U235 used as the re actor's primary fuel. Potential Wealth If that ever is accomplished, many nations now comparatively poor in nuclear resources, in cluding India and Brazil, will be come automatically rich. Both India and Brazil, as well as this country, have large thorium re serves. Russia, too, apparently has big deposits of thorium. One U.S. utility, the Consoli dated Edison Co. of New York, already is committed to thorium as a source of atomic fuel. It plans to build a "thorium-uranium converter reactor" capable of generating 140,000 kilowatts of electrical power. This plant, financed entirely by private industry, will cost about $55,000,000 to build. Neu trons from splitting atoms will transform thorium into U233. Port of Portland Fourth in Cargo Portland (U.R) Only three Pacific Coast ports handled more cargo than the port of Portland during 1954, according to fig ures released by the Corps of Engineers. Portland, with a total of 11, 782,242 long tons of waterborne commerce during the year, rank ed behind San Francisco with 35,765,846 tons; Los Angeles with 1.9,999,378, and Richmond, Calif., 13,373,650 tons. Other Pacific Northwest ports included Seattle, with 11,587, 360; Coos Bay, 2,860,794; Long view, 2,082,704; Grays Harbor, 1,724,193; Vancouver, Wash., 1,562,618, and Olympia, 1,166, 705 tons. Sabotage of Bandung Bound Plane Admitted London U.R) The British Colonial office said today a Hong Kong airport employee sabotaged an Air India plane carrying Chinese Communist diplomats and newsmen to the Bandung conference last April. The announcement said the man, identified as Chow Tse ming, alias Chou Chu, an em ployee of the Hong Kong Air: craft Engineering Corp., escap ed to Formosa even though he bragged of his work. It said that the Nationalists have refused to hand him over for trial. Fifteen persons died in the April crash when the Air India plane plunged into the sea on a flight from Hong Kong to Indo nesia. Daily's U-Drive Meeford Airport Porgy-Bess Given Reception in Moscow ' Moscow U.R) The Gersh win opera "Porgy and Bess" made its debut in Moscow last night before the pick of Russia's artistic and theatrical intelli gentsia who rose and gave it a standing, eight minute ovation. 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