I'm still absent, but I have just popped in to say hello. I'm stuck between October 1942 and 1950. Somethings going on. Of course in 1953 there was a big meeting in Santa Monica. Libby and the gang. Had to pick a few bones. But somewhere between 42 ("He's a genius") and 50 ("No he's n...

Now Dr. Brown wrote about beneficiation of lighter gravitic isotopes and using centrifuges to do the separation. Now France may hate the US, but they sure like the centrifuge technology that the US developed for enrichment. It's nice to know it works well... MagicBill I have had this on my mind. It...

i've read that LD met the Navy's need for quantity over quality. it was that production ability that made Grove accept [finally] that the MED could benefit from it. ...He writes as if he had some inside knowledge of their relationship, and i think he would agree with your assessment. I dont have th...

Abelson? I don't know. Now we know that the NRL had been interested in nuclear power since the mid-thirties, and was waiting to present it as a research agenda until there was more hard science behind it. When Fermi came to town, ..... Perhaps not Brown, but my gut feeling says that it wasn't Abels...

It may well have been Abelson, who is listed as being NRL though he had a post elsewhere. He spent time at Crocker lab with Ernest Lawrence and the cyclotron working on the enrichment problem. He came up with the thermal method and Lawrence the electromagnetic. In that brief period the NRL and Crock...

This is tantallising http://books.google.com.au/books?id=fGwsX00voKQC&pg=PA15&lpg=PA15&dq=Fermi+Gunn+reactor&source=web&ots=4deZq1dlMF&sig=2y6UZsZ4KSnuK9rFynHNSp59rMk&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=1&ct=result Page 15 Two NRL scientists met with Fermi. O...

It is sensible, Nate. Where is it written that banefits and evil deeds are flip sides of the same coin. But after reading the history of the Octopus, I can't help but think the worst of the folks involved. rose Will have to get familiar with that one. It emerged on page 4 of the People/places threa...

It is sensible, Nate. Where is it written that banefits and evil deeds are flip sides of the same coin. But after reading the history of the Octopus, I can't help but think the worst of the folks involved. rose Will have to get familiar with that one. Watched Thunderball last night. And recalled Te...

Just a quick note to report that the 1942 paper that went missing has been now been located. It amazes me Rose how many times Hitler survived attempts on his life. Wierd. But that was after the war had gotten properly underway. There was a documented conspiracy which allowed the suppression of the e...

My personal reaction to that article is much like Elizabeth's. America is unique in its openness. Had the Manhattan Project been conducted in England, it would all still be secret with 100 years yet to go. The British and Commonwealth nations define citizens as Subjects of Her Majesty. There's no B...

This might be nothing, but I''l put a link to this place here, and if it turns out to be irrelevant, Ill remove it. http://efi.uchicago.edu/about/ "The Enrico Fermi Institute is an academic unit of the University devoted to interdisciplinary research. It was founded shortly after the Second Wor...

There are always different slants to everything. Elizabeth I just need to roll a Jaffa down the theatre floor. I think that very often people of good intention, when they achieve positions of direct influence (ie get elected or attain a level of influence at work, or discover something about the na...

htmagic wrote:The tie between the NRL developing an RTG, along with his study of petrovoltaics, and Odlum and a uranium mine later on in the 1960s seems to fit well together.

MagicBill

Synchronisity is often not that, but signs of life. Very complex environment.

Langley, Yes, those meters remind me of the old Civil defense meters that were (and still are) out there: I have an ion chamber model like the Victoreen in the first picture and an external probe type like the CDV-700. Both are yellow in color. Did Dr. Brown have his fingers in the RTG? Who knows? ...

Technically sweet. Military applilcations esp for research purposes and the no moving parts of the rtg. Appealing. Just a thought. The mainly beta output of Sr90 (final step gamma) is easily shielded. If Sr89 used, still a useful life for prototyping devices but secure as its half life is 53 days no...