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Show 25 Years Ago an Awesome Fire Started And It Was the Birth of the Atomic Age ( outinuf 3 from Pig f he left a chancellorship at the of California ImverMtv to join the AEC, bringing an impressive scientific record. Seaborg wasnt at Tunitv. He doesn't remember how word about the tests success Mamos describe him as a theoretical physicist. There are two greit mv 'cues, two more ways to exhe said. plore the universe, One is astronomy, the science if the umverse external to us. The other is the study of the nuclei of the atom, the phys-c- s of matter. The study of the nucleus is really a study of the universe, all these new about which ore so little. These are called fundamental particles, but probably me will discover they are tot so fundamental" Ed McMillan has devoted is career to understanding matter. Now 62, he shared the Nobel Prize In physics in 1951 discover and lor helping understand severi hemically al new elements. McMillan Searched through old files to find a report he wrote three days after Trmtv describing his impressions lrom 20 miles. b reached the metallurgical laboratory at the University of Chicago where he had worked since 1942 on a leave of sence from Cal. Fueled the Buinb pat-tid- Along with other bright chemists, Seaborg sought to define the chemistry and metallurgy of plutonium and as the uranium, selected only feasible fuels for a nue'e- ar weapon. Producing usable amounts of the two metals eventually occupied the bulk of the Manhattan Project 1 Responsible for Safety Stafford Warren waited for the blast at base camp An war, he was chief medical for Trinity. I had responsibhty for the safety of the people around the countryside." Warren became medical school dean at the University of California at Los Angeles in 1947, founding a radiation laboratory that pioneered many uses of radioactive Isotopes as and therapeutic diagnostic tools. A tall man with a firm handshake, Warren, 75, is d but maintains an office and laboratory at the medical school. Before the war there had been quite a few developments in isotope techniques, I e said amid mice and chicks lies using in an arthritis research project. But after the war, the Imagination of biologists and c limcal and medical research- - j j S In this period of environmental crusade, Seaboig's job is not easy. The nuclear industry with its radiation, power plants, underground "I was aware of a sensation of heat on my face and hands, 1 j effort. Withou the work of Seaborg and the others, Los Alamos scientists would haw known how to build the bomb but would have had no fuel. Ball of Fire which lasted about a second. The ball of fire . . . could be seen rising and expanding and slowly fading out At about 30 seconds, the general appearance was simb lar to a goblet The ball I estimated to be about a mile in diameter and about four miles above the ground. . . McMillan came to the University of California at Berkeley m 1934 to join Ernest 0. Lawrence in pioneer work with called atom smashers," now lies director of the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory nestled m the Berkeley Hills overlooking San Francisco Bay. The theory of particles is full of weak spots. There are some theorists who seem very optimistic and think they will ,ive it all worked out soon. But I think most theorists would disagree with this ab- $20 DOWN, $20 MONTH explosions and inevitable weapons has become, rightly or wrongly, a villain. SPECIAL . . . SPECIAL . . . SPECIAL Seaborg has traveled the width and breadth of the country telling atomic energys story. He stresses the care used to select radiation standards; points out the need for power to maintain Americas standard of living and So clean her environment ; emphasizes atoms role In medicine; cities the AECs almost spotless safety recordfor more public education about atomic energy. $397.95 Lavish Black Vinyl Modern Sofa & Loveseat c-- ls Defense Attorney In short, Glenn Seaborg has become the defense attorney for the atom, on tnal not so much for its past as for its possible threat to the future. Born as a weapon, cloaked In secrecy, atomic energy has never been loved by the public. It has been the Damocles sword for the generation now In the forefront of the Desert egetation haa begun to take hold again environmental crusade. at Trinity site, where the first took Atomic energy must leave adolescence and grow to maplace. Fence in back denotes point of blast. turity. And those who watched the birth at Trinity and nurtured It later can only offer ers was greatly stimulated by are very hard to achieve advice or a helping hand. the possibilities the release of whether its amog or radiation It does little good to make nuclear energy had presented. or whatever. You are looking of our ancestors or scapegoats for no effect and youre lookThe production and release one or another segments of for the effect." first ing very of isotopes has done more for our society for the crises we medicine in general than any Radiation levels have occuface today, Seaborg said. useful tool and have many pied much of Glenn Seaborgs Our environmental crisis time lately. So, too, have therpossibilities." could not have been theorized Warren is disturbed about mal pollution, location of nuor accepted in the abstract the present controversy over clear reactors, underground before. It was an experiment nuclear explosions and a multithe radiation standards that had to be lived in contude of atomic energy probstandards he helped develop junction with the other proband worked with 25 years. lems lems of human growth that The debate concerns permissi-bl- e have evolved and which we Seaborg. who shared the amounts of radiation Nobel Prize with McMillan must now move on to accompanying nuclear activihas been chairman of the resolve. ties. Atomic Energy Commission Atomic energy, part of the But he concedes. These since 1961. A tall, pensive problem, also must be part of levels what is a safe dose man of 48 with a shy smile, the solution. SPECTACULAR PLANT1RS lush decorator specimen planters, fabulous and ot a fantastic price . many varieties and all ore in tpectoculor containers Unusually If you re looking for Q sofa and a loveseat that are both luxurious and easy to care for . . . this is it! Deep hand-tufte- d seats and backs, cushioned with pure foam. 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Nuclear power plants release small amounts of radiBut the amounts oactivity. are so tiny, compared even to radla-iion.- " natural background that the Atomic Energy Commission finds them no i easonable bar to exploitation of, atomic energy. tJudear power also Is tilean" In die sense that it djes not pollute the air with the kind of gases and particles from plants which generate electricity by burning coal or oil. Nevertheless thp number of new atomic lower units ordered by U.S. unities last year dropped to -- ix compared to 17 tl year before. The United States hopes sophisticated safeguards against ublic anxiety 1 Cm Solve Problem in atonuo energy brieve the problems It poses i i be solved. One of these is waat to do with radioactive wstes. Some fission products Delivers and crncrete containers. It now proposes to store -- one of them in a presumably salt mine near Hkproof Ljor.s, Kan. By 2000 A.D., It has estimated fission wastes from the v orld's power plants w ill total 16JD00 tons. Create Plutonium Vina isnt the only problem. Aj current atomic plants yate as byproduct plutonie fissionable um, a material which can be used to meke weapon! as well as electricity. i man-mad- According to Dr Glenn T. diversion of byproduct plutonium to weapons will be set up everywhere through the International Atomic Energy Agency which was created after President Dwight D. Ei- Nuclear Weapons Pose Continued World Peril senhower's address to the United Nations Atoms-For-Peac- e WASHINGTON (UPI) Nuclear weapons have yrown fantastically In numbers, in power, and In variety since World War II s The of 25 years ago were 2,000 times more powerful than the biggest chemical bombs. Now there are missile warheads 5.000 times as powerful as the thing that many of the witnes-e- s at Alamogordo considered the ultimate weapon." That first is now officially classified as low yield." The U. S. atomic monopoly lasted only a few years. Russia. 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