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Tips on Better Pumping Power)f $WAIN. EDITOR o OICCMBCl 1933 a 1STABUSHED IS82 WAYS to Get the Most From Your PUMPING INVESTMENT 1* MATCH THE PUMP TO THE CONDITIONS First, dctrmhi ]] ponifela condition* of th liquid to b* pumped--chemUtl saalyita, suction lift (If any), head or prttsuro, tpodfic gravity and tmpntur of liquid then plek the exact pump made for thoaa conditions. (In tha "Buffalo** Una, you'll find that "ideal" pump, because tha Una is so complete.) 2a SAVE ON FIRST COST BY USING Hlau. RECOMMENDED DRIVER SPEED " The higher the spaed, tha more tha pump will dcQ within reason--and the smaller tha pump yoa ^ for a given job. But bo sura to operate y M l, than recommended speeds. Overspeeding wears oet pump. 3. RIGHT INSTALLATION AIDS PERFORMANCll Give your pump the best chance--install dose s f--nfliljfl to liquid supply source--keep pipe friction losses t A minimum bo sure suction line has no humps or hofloviB which could causa air locks. (You'D find "Buffalo" Pomp^l compactly built and easy to instsll.) 4 a REOULAR MAINTENANCE SCHEDULE LENGTHENS PUMP LIFE Regular Inspections and servicing of bearing lubriettlo^l shaft alignment, packing, impeller not only keep yotuj pumps running smoothly, but head off minor cooditlooil which could develop into problems later on. (You base aj longdlfa "bonus" to start with If your pumps ini "Buffalb"!) A QUALITY PUMP IS ALWAYS AN ECONOMYj -SPECIFY "BUFFALO" No installation can be better tbtaj its pump. For known quality dm3 means long life, efficient perform- i anca and simple maintenance, pick J tha pumps used in many of t country's .largest installations-- ,-j "Buffalo" Pumps. BUPPALO' TYPB RR PUMP P O R HIGH PRESSURES--multistage dssl for dear ntsr service such as boiler feed. Ruggtd, high in efficiency. Write for BsBrds MO. PS, INC. 488 BROADWAY BUFFALO, N. Y. Subsidiary of Buffalo Forge Company Canada Pumps, Ltd, Kitchener, Ont. Sales Representatives in oil Principal Cities* A BETTER CENTRIFUGAL PUMP FOR EVERY LIQUID POWER DECIMtH Afterthoughts on Atomic Power vtNTS ARE movwg past on ihe atomic front. A few weeks ago .General Electric announced (see page 1S2) nt it would ask the Atomic Energy Commission for perilssion to generate byproduct power from the plutonium eduction ot the Hanford plant of AEC. Next, AEC ounced its award of a contract (same page) to Westjoghouse to build a 60,000-kw atomic power plant--to be inifbed in about five years at a cost of "many tens of liliions of dollars." A few days later, by pure coincidence, more than a tousand American Industrialists--mostly nonengineers ^silently sat through two days of lectures on atomic 'power ot a New York meeting of the National Industrial ^Conference Board. What's the inner meaning of all this talk and action? Here, in brief, are my personal views. First, it's safe to predict thot several fair-slxed otomic 'pltnts wilt be operating within eix or seven years. T don't expect any of these wlU come within gunshot of competi tive costs per kildwollhour--except by crediting power costs with plutonium sold to the Government at cold-war prices, for uses that are essentially military. By military I mean for bombs, artillery shells, warship propulsion ond [joch uses. If there were no cold war, and if nobody were worrying [.about A bombs and H bombs, I don't think atomic power j would seem so urgent. Chances are we would bo calmly > discussing uranium os the "fuel of the future," to be de veloped gradually when our reserves of conventional fuels begin to run dry. ' It must be granted that even the earlier atom-bomb plants day show a fuel-cost saving over coal, oil and gas. And "breeder" operation of the reactors will eventually make cranium fuel equivalent to coal at a tew cents per ton. Yet 1 feel that the much higher first cost of the atomio power plants, and the complexities of fuel processing, will offset the lower fuel costa for many years. Again, this leaves out the plutonium subsidy, which may prove to be undependable in the long run. If atomic plants are generating most of America's power a few decades from now, we shell be saving much of the money that would otherwise be spent for power-plant coal, oil and gas. This will be tremendously important for power and fuel men, but certainly not revolutionary from the national standpoint, since the total cost of all coal, oil and gas burned in central power plants is less than a half of one percent of the national income. Despite soothing talk about ``finding peaceful instead of military uses for the atom" I am convinced that the main moving force behind otomic power D military need. This becomes dear as we review some of the terribly im portant military ond strategic facta: that Russia has the A bomb and probably the H bomb--that America must be top dog in atomio war potential so the fear of retalia tion will hold off any enemy attack--that every atomic power plant will be a producer of byproduct plutonium-- that the design, building and operation of atomio power plants will train many engineers in atomic techniques --that a "forced-draft" atomic-power program may lead to unpredictable atomic discoveries, and that these may become a matter of life and death to this notion--that a going atomic-power Industry will help America keep for eign suppliers of uranium on our aide. To sum up, it is certain that atomio power plants will be built. I feel that they should be built--mainly for reasons of national security. To a large extent they will be built, equipped and operated by men who read Power. That is the reason for this blunt summary of my personal views regarding tho future of atomic power.--Phil Swain *0W|R DECEMBER 1953