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Show i V l - A-Pow- Attractive For Long Missions er When power is needed for more dun a few weeks in space, nuclear power systems are advantageous in regions of limited sunlight, high levels of space radiation, low earth orbits where there is high atmospheric drag, or for rela supplementary source of electricity for its radio transmitters went into orbit June 29, 1961. The generator, known as SNAP-3is still operating, though at reduced power. The first space generator is tively higher power levels. For such reasons, in the first decade of the space program, some nuclear power units have already been put to use. The first satellite launched into space carrying an atomic generator as a AEC-develop- Sam,,In about five inches in diameter; and 5 inches high; it converts the heat given off by into directly plutonium electricity. ed A isotopic generator been launched for have units the Department of Defense, and a reactor power system, known as SNAP-- 1 OA, was demonstrated in space during 1QC SNAP-- 9 A, stands for Systems for Nuclear Auxiliary Power. SNAP YVS'V . s , ' ' " ' . , , ti'-- , vr ;' V ' J j , , ; t r s J. ? l . i . , f rf;-- fj - J- s.-- WcO -: f ' . ' A : 4 J. . -- Ai ' , ; . ' . t y.:- - : - - Av v'W s' '2v 'r v: J fv' f:J r f t ; "k--v M Vt 'Y s',-., ? r 'V'.':,'.;'." r -. i v ; i s Y ? I V.Wi-c- i ' T( , and air,'vOsSAr3A T -- jcSsfrj .b. ' rt. a'r 25 per copy Oil aide raps depletion slash NEW Y0RK--- A top than 40 years because it has stood the test of repeated, spokesman has reacted searching examinations. The strongly to the House Ways facts show that it has been and Means Committee to one of the most effective reduce the 2714 per cent oil provisions ever enacted by depletion allowance to 20 Congress. The committee voted last per cent. Frank N. Ikard, president ' week to cut the oil of the American Petroleum depletion allowance from 2714 to 20 per cent on Institute said: The need for realistic domestic production and to tax treatment of petroleum eliminate it entirely on production is greater now foreign output. The 18-than at any time in the past vote was considered i because of the nation's landmark decision The decision is the firsl demand for petroleum industry - 7 ever-growin- g move in Chairman Wilbu low cost energy. Percentage depletion D. Mills, has been in effect for more vacuum cleaner are used to locate and An ultraviolet light and a needle-size- d at the AECs Oak Ridge (Tenn.) 2 plant. This remove dust particles from an Apollo moonbox is one of several operations involved in the decontamination of the lunar sample boxes prior to the plant, operated by Union Carbide Corp. for the AEC, designed and Apollo 11 flight. The 2 the aluminum boxes used by the Apollo astronauts to transport geological fabricated samples from the moon's surface to earth. (Union Carbide photo) D-Ar- k., effort to (Continued Page 6) MOONBOX Y-1- Y-1- 2 Officers and directors of the Southwestern Montana Mining Association and the Leonard B. Lively, of the president Southwestern Association, Mining Association of issued this statement: to study Astro lunar samples Montana met in emergency Ex-Utah- ns session recently and directed the legal team of Keller and Padbury to initiate action to have S.B. 315, the be to measure the energy of be two former Utahns. can hardly wait through the Richard W. Perkins, a certain rays emitted by the isolation period of the graduate of Utah State moon material. astronauts to get their University, is chief By measuring the amount hands on the lunar rocks investigator on a team of of radioisotopes and and soil, films and other scientists whose task will be comparing the results with experiments carried out by to examine some of the the amount found on earth, moon geological samples. sdentiests hope to tell how Apollo 11. And among the scientists Perkins, who has worked at long the moon has been who will probe the lunar B a telle' Memorial Institute exposed to radiation from samples in hopes of Laboratories, Richland, the sun and other sources. who is Another unlocking such puzzles as Wash, for 17 years, said the the origin of the moon, will purpose of his project will (Continued Page 2) HOUSTON-Scienti- Montana miners ired sts i ex-Uta- hn Anti-Plac- er Mining Law, set aside as The mining associations of Montana are angry with the attempt to implement S.B. 315 which eliminates all placer mining in Montana, and particularly at a time when the state is unconstitutuional. (Continued Page 7) U.S. Steel names engineer ' II. A. Archer of Pittsburgh, Pa., has been named metallurgical engineer, assigned to the Salt Lake City District sales office of U. S. Steel. Archer will succeed E. W. Kempton, who is going to the Quaa Gties District sales office at Bettendorf, Iowa, after seven and one-ha- lf years in the Salt Lake City post. Archer is a native of Fairfield, Ala., and is a graduate of Grove City (Pa.) College. He has been witn U. S. Steel since 1941, serving in the Pittsburgh area, San Francisco and Denver. He is a member of the American Society for Metals and the American Welding Society. |