Science: Rabbit Reactor

Atomic energy has passed a new and important milestone. Last week Atomic Energy Commission Chairman Gordon Dean told an Atlantic City meeting that the AEC's "breeder reactor" at arco. Idaho has been pronounced successful: The development multiplies by more than the energy-producing potential of the world's uranium. An analogy spelled out by Dean explained what atomic breeding is.

Dean asked his audience to imagine that the world has only 100 gallons of gasoline, but that when the gasoline is burned in the presence of water, it turns some of the water into new gasoline....

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