Electric Power from Nuclear Energy

Author: Widdoes, Lawrence C.

Published in: Engineering and Science, Volume 16, Number 2, 1952, pp. 9-11

Part of: Engineering and Science, Volume 16:2, November 1952

Item Category: Feature Articles

Persistent URL: https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechES:16.2.Widdoes

Abstract

Commercial production of electric power from nuclear fuel is on the way. Shall we wait for the day when we learn how to make economic power alone in an atomic reactor--or enter the field now by co-producing plutonium and power?

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