
EnvironmentJanuary 1, 1960
Breeder Reactors
Reactors that produce more fuel than they consume make it feasible to “burn the rocks,” that is, to utilize the vast supply of uranium and thorium contained not in rich ores but in rocks such as granite

Breeder Reactors
Reactors that produce more fuel than they consume make it feasible to “burn the rocks,” that is, to utilize the vast supply of uranium and thorium contained not in rich ores but in rocks such as granite

Power Reactors
The goal of economic atomic power is still in the distance. To discover the best approach to it, the U. S. is building five separate types of experimental nuclear power stations