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Our hypothetical Trustee recognizes that the economic and social pressures directed at finding new sources of abundant low-cost energy are about to become compelling. As a prudent Trustee, he would say the time for action has come. He would urge that the nation's talents, public and private, be released for the development of nuclear furnaces (reactors) capable of furnishing heat for the generation of electricity, for district central heating and for industrial process heating. He would urge that we continue to explore nuclear reactions other than the fission of uranium and thorium. There is hope of domesticating the fusion reaction that makes the hydrogen bomb go. Economical fusion of the hydrogen contained in a cubic mile of sea water would be a source of capital energy equal to all conceivable needs for many hundreds of years. He would be concerned about the vast quantities of metals, some of them already in short supply, that would be required by very large nuclear power programs. He would suggest that we search for these metals by methods yet to be developed, and in novel places, including the sea. Finally, as our ultimate anchor to windward, he would urge the exploration of all ways …

Between June and August, 1952, a series of leaking process tubes were discovered in F and D Piles. All of the tubes, six from F and two from D, were removed and found to be leaking from a pitting attack that progressed from inside the tube walls. During this same period a serious slug pitting attack, not previously observed, was found on many slugs discharged at F Pile. Two hypotheses were presented that were considered that most likely explanations of the observed corrosion effects. The first mechanism-presented involved the process of cavitation. Briefly this hypothesis proposed that an obstruction to the water flow in the slug-tube annulus, such as a cocked slug or partially plugged annulus, caused the formation of a low pressure area capable of sustaining water vapor formation. The water vapor thus formed moved into the undisturbed, or higher pressure, regions of the annulus with the subsequent collapse of the vapor bubbles. This mechanism weakened or destroyed the protective oxide coat on the slugs and tubes, producing a localized corrosion phenomenon. The second hypothesis proposed to explain the observed effects was the erosion-corrosion hypothesis. This hypothesis presented the mechanism of protective aluminum oxide coat removal by the abrasive …

This investigation was made to adapt wet-process autoradiography to metallurgical samples to obtain high resolution of segregated radioactive elements in microstructures. Results are confined to development of the technique, which was perfected to a resolution of less than 10 microns. The radioactive samples included carbon-14 carburized iron and steel, nickel-63 electroplated samples, a powder product containing nickel-63, and tungsten-185 in N-155 alloy.

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Searches for methods of sterilization of foods so as to overcome changes in flavor, texture and color caused by customary sterilization procedures.

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