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Show Italian physicist Enrico ' Fermi voiced an oft-stated dream that the world would ' find peaceful uses for the p atom to benefit mankind. ' THEN: It was just 40 i) years ago that Professor u: Fermi led a team of sci- ! 1 entists which performed the world's first controlled nu-clear nu-clear chain reaction at the "f . University of Chicago. c ' 0t NOW: Professor Fermi's cd' dream is coming true. A plaque in his memory has b1 been unveiled in the town of Caorso on the River Po ' in Italy. It is a spot where Fermi played as a little j, boy visiting his grandfather, j It is also the site ijh- of Italy's largest operating nuclear power plant, an 840,000 kilowatt General Electric-design boiling water reactor. Officials estimate that the plant's output will cut 365 million lire a year from Italy's oil import bill. A similar plant, now under construction in Midland, Mid-land, Michigan, will also bear Fermi's name. The 1,100,000 kilowatt plant is being built by Detroit Edison Company. |