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Show Oak Ridge Atomic Exhibit Comes to High School Oak Ridge Staff Member Cedar City High School students stu-dents in Cedar City, Utah, will next Tuesday have the opportunity opportu-nity of getting acquainted with the wonders of our present age at a special assembly program. Featured on the program will be "This Atomic World." a traveling atomic eiergy exhibit of the US Atomic Energy Commission. The exhibit will be sent to Cedar Ce-dar City from the museum division divi-sion of the Oak Ridge Institute of Nuclear Studies, which manages man-ages the exhibit, as well as the American Museum of Atomic Energy at Oak Ridge, Tenn., for the Commission. "This Atomic World" Is one of several traveling exhibits which the Commission has made available avail-able to towns and cities all over the United States. It is designed to meet the needs of pricipals, science teachers, and civic leaders lead-ers in stimulating a deeper Interest In-terest In the peacetime uses of atomic energy. In Tuesday's program, a staff member of the museum division will take the audience on an ex- j curslon into the atomic age. Util-, lzlng exhibits and demonstration demonstra-tion equipment, the demonstrator demonstrat-or will explain in simple language lang-uage the fundamentals of atomic atom-ic energy and how It compares with other types of energy; how atomic energy is released thru radiation and fission, and how atomic energy is used in agricultures, agri-cultures, medicine, industry and other fields. Illustrative charts, panels, models mo-dels and equipment will play Important roles in the demonstration. demon-stration. One of the outstanding attractions of "This Atomic World" will be a demonstration model of the Van de Graff electrostatic elec-trostatic generator. This device which generates 250,000 volts of static electricity, will be used to explain how large models are used in physics laboratories to study atomic structure. |
