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Show OuuJ. f - "iv'1. ,vv ;. 40-kilot- at on a site near Rifle, Colorado. will be part of Project detonation The conducted as Rulison, the second in a planned EJdXBCSS? of e r i e s Government-industr- 8 y joint experiments to investigate the use of contained nuclear explosions to enhance the recovery of natural gas from gas formations. A contract for conduct of the low-permeabil- ERIAi5'XMs0c(7, was signed by the participants on March 26, and a tentative ready date of May 22 was established for the nuclear could not be time in to meet the completed May 22 date. detonation. Project Rulison is jointly sponsored by the Atomic Energy Vegas, acting Commission;' the Bureau of Mines of the U. S. Department manager. project However, the participants announced on May 7 that the detonation would be rescheduled because necessary preparations 'ZgMiTAfi rLUlfifrip Sept. 4 new date for Rulison A-blasl A new tentative ready date of 4 has been September established for a underground nuclear detonation dWi of the Interior; the industrial sponsor, Austral Oil Company, Inc., of Houston; and CEli Geonuclear Corporation of Las as program CXDCEXiDCaraSsORD yet Vol. 1 August 4, 1969 No. 23 25$ per copy of U. gets okay to boost power U. N-react- or There are more uses for university applied for raised atomic energy than bombs and wattage of the reactor in March submarines and nuclear research and began preparing to meet at the University of Utah is due stringent safety regulations. for expansion. Additional shielding was The university recently placed around the reactor so received tentative approval to that, It isn't even dangerous to boost the power of its nuclear the Merrill Engineering Building fission reactor 50 times. Final (where the reactor is located) approval, said Dr. Gary M. much less the' community,' he Sandquist, director of the said. Charles Peterson, a graduate university nuclear engineering of in nuclear engineering, noted program, is awaiting approval local authorities. that in the worst of all possible Higher wattage for the reactor accidents, a nearby reactor should operator would receive about increase its research potential in one roentgen of radio activity. such fields as internal medicine, He said a doctor's chest y air pollution studies, mineralogy machine can give off as much as and law enforcement. five roentgens and that up to Dr. Sandquist said the (Continued Page 3) 12-year-o- ld X-ra- Gary M. Sandquist, directed of University of Utah's Nuclear Engineering Program, "foresees expansion for atomic energy research activities KCC patents molybdenum recovery idea NEW Y0RK--- A patent a process to recover high-purit- y molybdenum and rhenium products from impure acid solutions has been issued by the U. S. . Patent Office to Kennecott Copper Corporation as the result of the work of two Salt Lake City, Utah, inventors. involving Letters Patent 3,458,277 covers the invention by R. N. center of the copper company. Platzke, associate scientist, and J. D. Prater, hydrometallurgy process involves the extraction of molybdenum and rhenium, if present, from oxidized acidic solutions by section head, both employees at Kennecott's Metal Mining Division research department at the Salt Lake City research The solvent The extraction. molybdenum and rhenium are removed from the organic solvent with ammonium hydroxide. Ammonium is paramolybdate crystallized from the concentrated ammonium hydroxide solution. The rhenium, if present, is recovered from the ammonium hydroxide solution using an ion exchange process. Six claims under the patent cover the extraction of molybdenum, the purification of the ammonium hydroxide solution, and the crystallization of the ammonium paramolybdate product. Treasury adamant on gold ownership The treasury has been informed that a mutual fund has been formed in Europe for the purpose of investing in gold bullion. Treasury officials, in response to inquiries, pointed out that the Department's Gold Regulations apply not only to direct ownership of gold but also to the acquisition of indirect interests in gold. Thus it is illegal for Americans to acquire or hold securities issued by any company, including a mutual fund, that holds gold as a substantial part of its assets and as a store of value, rather than for specific and customary industrial, professional or artistic me. It also should be noted that share contracts denominated any . This prohibition is applicable to United States citizens wherever resident, resident in the United States, and to United States companies. non-citize- ns . in gold, or in an .mount of dollars measured in terms of gold, or convertible into gold, have been declared by Congress to be against public policy and are not enforceable in U. S. courts, Investments in companies which hold gold for specific and cu8,omary industrial, professional or artistic use-su- ch gg a dental supply house or a not mining company-a- re prohibited under the Department regulations. |