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' - ' ' , ? ; ' . J : v . - ; " . 1 C MAIt TRIBUNE, MeoW, Or. 10 Monday, July 13. 1959 Wardrobe Wonder . one day of easy sewing brings you a fresh, pretty look every day of summer. Wide, - scooped neckline in airy and flattering above fitted waist and flowing skirt. Choose cotton, silk. Tomorrow's pat tern: Misses' outfit. Printed Pattern 9097: Miss es Sizes 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20. Size 16 dress takes 3 yards 39-inch. Printed directions on each pattern part. Easier, accurate. ; Send thirty - fir einti (coins) for this pattern - add 10 cents for each pattern for first-class mailing. Send to Marian Martin, Medford Mail Tribune, Pattern Dept., 232 West 18th St., New York 11, N. Y. Print plainly NAME, ADDRESS, SIZE and STYLE NUMBER. Monrovia, capital of Liberia, was named for ' President James Monroe. Atomic Mant Expected To Mastem ' EcomiomDcal Power .'About To lie BuSBt By JOSEPH L. MYLER UPI Correspondent - Washington (UPD - A new kind of atomic plant that is expected to hasten the day of ecenomical nuclear power is about to rise on the east bank of the Miami River in Piqua, Ohio. l It will be the first atomic plant operated by a municipal agency and the first practical power reactor using organic materials to modertae'the fis sion process and translate its head into steam. The plant, for which con struction and operating con tracts were signed in June, is scheduled to be operating at full power in December, 1961 It will generate 11,400 kilo watts of electricity for Piq ua s power system. It is ex pected to serve the city for at least 20 years.. AEC To Own Plant The Piqua plant was born of the Atomic Energy Com mission's power reactor dem onstration program. The AEC is putting up $14,100,000 for it and will be the plant's own er. Atomics International,' a division of North American Aviation,' Inc., is building the reactor under an AEC contract. The city of Piqua supplied the site and will provide the turbogenerator and other non- nuclear equipment at an esi mate cost of about four mil lion dollars. The city has con tracted to buy steam from the AEC for five years. Presum ably, if the plant succeeds as expected, this contract will be renewed. According to AEC Chair man John A. McCone, the kind of reactor to be built at Piqua "has promise for the achievement of economic nu clear . power." According to Atomics International, it is one of the most promising" of all power reactor types thus far proposed. Approval Delayed The Piqua project took nearly 3J4 years to reach the contract-signing stage. Safety considerations delayed final approval. This was due in part to the plant's novel de sign. Reactors like those in atom ic submarines and the big power plant at Shippingport, Pa., are moderated by gra phite and cooled by water un der pressure. In the Piqua plant a mixture of terphenyls, consisting of hydrogen ' and carbon in chemical combina tion, will serve as both mod erator and coolant. Molten terphenyl will slow neutrons in the nuclear re action to their most efficient speeds and then, flowing from the reactor core, will trans fer heat to an exchanger where it will convert water into steam to run the electri cal generator. A big advantage of organic moderated . and cooled react ors is that they can produce fairly high steam temperatures at comparatively low pres sures. This is because of the high boiling point of the hy drocarbon. Organic material does not become highly radio active m a reactor. Nor does it present the corrosion prob lem posed by many other cool ants. , Built-in Safety Factor Because it is liquid at op erating temperatures, the hy drocarbon is a built-in safety factor. A sudden surge of power would cause it to bub ble, thus lowering its moder ating efficiency and slowing the reaction. In addition, the hydrocar bon -does not .readily absorb neutrons, which are the indis pensable agents of atomic fis sion. This "neutron economy" makes it possible to use urani um enriched only about 1.8 per cent in fissionable U-235. Piqua proposed the plant early in 1956. The AEC auth orized contract negotiations in September of that year. On May 2, 1958, the commission announced agreement with the city and Atomics Inter national on what the proposed contracts should cover. - Then a hitch developed. On Aug.-4, 1958, the commis sion's advisory committee on" reactor, safeguards, newly created by Congress, an nounced "the tentative view . .-. that the site is not a suitable one." vs. Site Approved ' The proposed site was next to the Piqua municipal power plant on the west side of the Miami River. The advisory committee felt that in view of the plant's untried design, this was too close to the cent er of population. . - The city proposed another site, across the river on the east bank and about 700 feet from the power plant. The advisory committee in all held about six meetings , on the Piqua project. Finally, at a session on May 14-15 of this year, the com mittee okayed the site "as not creating an undue public risk" although it said it did "not look with favor upon the location of power reactors immediately adjacent to pop ulated areas." '; -.-; The committee conditioned its approval of the site on re vision of the design to include a steel containment sphere to prevent spread of radioactiv: lty in the event of an acci dent. The AEC announced June 5 that it had signed the con tracts with the city and. the company. It said, however, that it will permit operation of the plant "only after all . , safety standards have been fully complied with." The schedule calls for the plant to be completed in July 1961. The fission reaction is scheduled to start in August, 1961," and build up to full power operation in December, 1961.. . . Resumed in June Meanwhile, research and development will continue on an experimental organic re actor built in 1957 by Atomics International at the AEC's reactor test station in Idaho. This reactor operated for several months last year. It resumed test operation this June with a new fuel loading which includes some fuel ele ments like those to be used at Piqua. One difficulty with organic coolants is that they "tend to break down chemically under the influence of heat. Atomics International plans to over come this difficulty by divert ing the coolant flow, through a still which will remove any breakdown products that might clog the machinery. : Atomics International esti mates that a reactor of the Piqua type can produce elec tricity at a cost of .18.5 mills per kilowatt hour. Much larg er organic reactors, capable of producing 300,000 . kilo watts of electricity, might bring this cost down around 8.13 mills. : Power ' costs in U.S. coal fired plants of comparable size have been estimated' at 6.9 to 7.4' mills" per kilowatt hour. ' ' Not Competitive ; , ' ...The estimatets for the Piq ua plant make it clear it will not be competitive in this country. But, according to Atomics International, 18.5 mills "is equivalent to power costs from conventional plants in many parts of the world" where fuel costs are high. Euratom, the six - nation European organization which hopes with U.S. help to build nuclear plants, with about one million kilowatts of . electrical generating capacity by the end of the 1963, has shown in terest in the organic reactor concept. And Atomics International recently signed a contract to provide the British firm, Eng lish Electric Co., with tech nical information on. the manufacture and sale of or ganic nuclear power react ors." t .: Bring Outdoors In aa Baker Democrats Elect Attorney. Baker (UPD H. B. (Bard) Johnson has been elected, by the Baker County Democratic committee as chairman. ' Johnson, a 37-year-old at torney; succeeds G. Lowell Fuller, who has resigned. '9097. SIZES try tirelICvnvH Be an artist! . Embroider these colorful bird-panels to spark your decorating scheme. - Pair up these slim, modern panels to brighten a room with Nature's own vivid col orings. Pattern 7231: transfer of panels 8 x 21 inches; color schemes. Send Thirty . five cents (coins) for this pattern - add 5' cents for each pattern tor lst-class mailing. Send to Medford Mail Tribune, House hold Arts Dept., P.O. Box 168, Old Chelsea Station, New York 11, N.' Y. Print plainly NAME, ADDRESS, PAT TERN NUMBER. 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