Atoms For Peace
Stale College’s nuclear experiments may
change your ways of living.
Long a leader in technological de¬
velopments in the South, State College
has accepted the challenge of the
Atomic era by pioneering in the
establishment of the first non-Atomic
Energy Commission research and
training project in Nuclear Engineer¬
ing in the country.
The research and training program
is administered by the Physics Depart¬
ment, in the School of Engineering, of
which Dean J. H. Lampc is the head.
The project was conceived and ini¬
tiated by Dr. Clifford Beck, of Salis¬
bury, and has been brought to its
present status under his guidance.
The two paramount objectives of
this project arc ( I ) the training of
nuclear engineers, and (2) the explo¬
ration of potential peacetime applica¬
tions of nuclear processes. The entire
project, including the reactor, is on a
non-rcstricted basis, and will be freely
accessible to the general public for in¬
spection as well as to the staff and
students for instruction and research.
The reactor which, in position,
somewhat resembles a huge concrete
derby with a wide, thick, flat brim,
will serve as the key tool in the nu¬
clear training program. The unit,
whose primary purpose is to produce
waves or beams of radiation for study
and research, is approximately 17 feet
across and 10 feet high.
Note: This is a condensation of
an article front "The Wachovia" publi¬
cation of The Wachovia Bank & 'Trust
Company.
Dr. Beck and his staff, will pri¬
marily use the reactor to pursue three
major types of investigations: First,
they will study the fundamental char¬
acteristics of the nuclear reactor in
order to gain a better basic understand¬
ing of its scope and behavior. Specif¬
ically, they will seek out the factors
which directly affect the reactor's
operation, with an eye toward securing
information which physicists might use
in the construction of future reactors
. . . possibly for power production.
They will also seek methods by which
the intense heat generated through nu¬
clear fission can be most effectively re¬
moved from the reactor as well as
systems by which heat from reactors in
general may be efficiently used for pro¬
ductive purposes. They will also at¬
tempt to determine from small scale
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