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READER SERVICE SECTION POWER NEWS. TECHNICAL BRIEFS. PLANT EQUIPMENT NEWS NEW FREE BULLETINS NSW OFFICERS for Canodo'i Institute of Power Engineers:'w/a* to right, George Gibson, vice-president; Chodes E Baker'Vf president; Wllltom G Child, generol secretory; Fred Blgnell'&Vjj vice-president. (For story of annual convention, tee p 2S6)^J WORLD'S first tnner-cooled generotor, built by WMlirg^^fe' house Electric Corp, goes to Niagara Mohowk Power Co. Unir*V?i Is'rated ot 100,000 kw yet, through redesigned cooling sys-^^ tem, It only slightly larger than overage 40,000-kw mechfhWsr' U. S. Plans Broad Atomic Energy Program GbnbOAL Electric Co Hob taken a double-barreled shot ei the job of en larging the scope of today's atomic en ergy applications. The company has offered the'Atomlc Energy Commission a proposal to build a large-capacity power reactor, st government expense, at the Hanford Works in Washington state. Since operating temperatures ot pres ent reactors are entirely loo low for economical power production, this in stallation would require an entirely new plant. No details are available on power capacity, .operating temperature and other technical information, but CE states that the project would be eco nomical. Aim of this new installation would be to alleviate the power drain that the Hanford Works have'been making on the Northwest hydro system. G says the project would produce enough power to carry the Hanford Worka itself and would elso supply a'surplus for supple menting regional sources. CE is also planning to test-operale' a new reactor power plant tor subma rines. Chicago Bridge and Iron Co has built a large steel sphere at Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory's West Milton, N. Y. site. This 3850-ton structure, 225-ft In diameter and higher than an lB-atory building, will house the com plete submarine during reaetor teste. WasTiNCHOtisB Electric Corp has eontraeted: with the Atomic Energy Com mission to construct the first full-scale atomic energy plant (or peaceful use, a plant that will produce a minimum of 60,000 kw and will cost "tens of mil lions of dollars." Rear Admiral Hyman G Rickover, atomic reactor expert of the United Slates Navy, will be in charge of the project. Although still in the planning stage, AEC hopes to have the plant erected and in operation within three to four years. Tentative sites are Oak Ridge, Tenn.; Paducah, Ky., and Ports mouth, Ohio. Early this year AEC submitted to the National Security Council a statement of policy on the development of nuelear power. Despite differences in political and economic opinions among the men of the Commission, unanimity was reached--in the only full informed gar ter In the country--concerning the Im portant subject of nuclear power de velopment. The nuclear power development raoo now seems to have split Into two sep arate contests: (1) the arms race, in cluding the production of bombs, mis siles, submarine power plants and other weapons, and (2) the industrial power For coming events see page 262 race. Thomas E Murray, AEC Com missioner, emphasised the Importance of' considering both parts of this race. Speaking of the recent news about ihermonuclcar (H-bomb)' demonstra tions in Soviet Russia^ Murray atid, "This recent USSR accomplishment, great as we must admit it to be, Is leu dangerous today to the free world's hopes for the end of Codlets tyranny than would have been the case if the Soviets had announced that they had been successfully operating a practical industrial nucleor power plant--and Tub's a tried and proven,way of saving equipment l^ptts . . . assuring continuity of power! Proved by Hies in hundreds .of installations! Whal Is a Transfer Bui? were offering foreign nations nuclear 'wtaply a by-pass bus circuit that parallels the main power technology in exchange for fchgear bus. A switching means is provided so that loads uranium, coupled with other favorable be transferred to the transfer bus. It's a standby in case economic and political agreements. Tftjag happens to the main bus. Also, makes it possible to If"It is no secret that our atomic weapons program depends upon the re ceipt of substantial quantities of uran jWaw and maintain circuit breakers, or inspect main bus " power stoppage. ium from foreign nations. These friendly What ore Other Advantages? nations, 1 think, are motivated mainly , -, Cost. Transfer bus costs about Vi as much as the by two beliefs. They believe in the mil' wditional equipment needed to provide duplicate switch- itary protection afforded by our otorok weapon potential. But we sometimes are Sto do this same job. Space in Half. Allis-ChaJmers supplies transfer bus inclined to forget that they also are cubicle as switchgear without adding cubicles. betting on our great record of auecessln Tnug an Allis-Chslmers installation cuts space one-half. solving Industrial and technological -> In addition, you can insure against failure of power source by providing a double end feed with the one set of switch gear and be as sure of power supply as if you had duplicate switchgear. Depending on the job you want to do, there are many arrangements that Allis-Chaimers can provide. In many cases, the engineering has already been done. Ask an AUis-Chalmers engineer about transfer bus ar rangements and what they can mean to your plant in savings and service. Call your nearby Allis-ChaJmers district office, or write AUis-Chalmers, Milwaukee 1, Wisconsin. A-sni problems. They are banking on Unite States know-how and United States gw faith to help them build their nuclear power plants of the future. "I believe that unless we embark (Continued on page 258) ALLIS-CHALMERS m first In the U. $ with Metal-Clad Switchgear . READER SERVICE SECTION POWER DECEMBER 1?H