SPOTLIGHT ON INDITJTRY control cubicles will regulate purity, pressures, water levels, temperatures and various other operations, Westinghouse previously furnished similar control cubicles for generators used on the Polaris submarines. The cubicles will be furnished by the Westinghouse systems control division, cranes and defense group, in Buffalo.
WESTINGHOUSE PLANS TO BUILD ADVANCED VBREEDER' ATOMIC POWER PLANT
Westinghouse Electric International Company, 200 Park Avenue, New York 10017, USA
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Marttfmes: St. Elizabeth Hospital. l = ~ a s t e r Hospital, Victoria Public Hospital, Aberdeen Hospital. Carleton Memorial Hospital, Halifax Infirmary. Yarmouth Hospital, Moseton Hospital, Sacr~ Coeur Hospital, Chaticamp N. S. Newfoundland: Central Newfoundland Hospital. ELECTRICITY-PRODUCING SP~CE DEVICE Westinghouse Electric Irder~dlo~ai C o m ~ . 200 Park Avenue, New York 10017, USA
Westinghouse Electric Corporation recently announced plans to develop and start building by 1970 a prototype of an atomic power plant which will make more fuel than it uses. In a statement before the Joint Congressional Committee on atomic energy, on March 16, John W. Simpson, vice president in charge of the Westinghouse electric utility group, said that to build a sodium cooled, fast breeder reactor u~ing plutonium fuel the company Swill seek the assistance of electric utility companies n and will Wcommit $10 million and our f~cilities". Westinghouse has under cor~struction a pilot plutonium fabrication facility and is continuing, largely at own expense, the design, analysis and investigation of fast breeder systems.
The Atomic Energy Commission has awarded West.. inghouse Electric Corporation a $1 million contract for continued development of a compact space ~ v t c c to convert heat int~, ~iectrtcity. Several prototype units have been built by the cc,mpanyts Astronuclcar Laboratory under an earlier feasibility contract and tested for hundreds of hours. The units are cylindrical in shape, about two inches in diameter. 20 inches tong and operate on the principle of therm~leetrics. The ultimate aim of the program is to develop a tu[~ular thermoelectric module capable of withstanding the rigors of space flight while providing electricity to power communications and other systems on manned or unmanned space vehicles. The thermoelectric modale will use the heat from a Space Nuclear Auxiliary Power {SNAP) unit or a radio isotope for conversion into electricity. It is coupled to the heat prodvcing unit by electrical or hydraulic means.
LEAD FOR HOSPITAL X-KAY PROTECTION
LARGE QUADRUPOLE MAGNET FOR CERN
Federated Metals Canada Ltd., Lead Construction Dfv., Montreal Plant, 1400 Norman Street, Lachine, Quebec, Canada Toronto Plant, 1110 Birchmount Road, Scarborough , Ontario, Canada
Atlgemeine Elektriziti:ts-Gesellschafl (AEG), Nuclear Energy Division, AEG-Hochhaus, 6 Frankfurt (Main)-SlO~ Germony
Federated Metals Canada Limited maintains a separate Division specializing in the supply and installation of lead for Hospital X-Ray Protection as well as the supply of all types of containers and carrying cases for radioactive isotopes, including interlocking lead bricks for the construction compartments where excessive radiation is a hazard. Listed below are some of the installations undertaken by Federated Metals Canada Limited: Quebec: Hotel=Dieu Hospital, Montreal, Maisonneuve Hospital, Jewish General Hospital, St. Mary's Hospital, Notre Dame Hospital, Radium Institute Queen Mary Veterans, Sanatorium Provost, Brome-Missisquoi-Perkins Hospital, Jeffrey Hale Hospital, St. Jean dqberville Hospital, St, Joseph Hospital, Comtols Hospital, Laval Hospital, Sherbrooke Hospital, Drummondville Hospital, Merci Hospital, Ste. Justine Hospital, Hotel-Dieu-Arthabaska, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, St. Maryts Hospital, Three Rivers. Ontario: Radiological Laboratories of National Research Council, X-Ray Division of Department of Health-, Atomic Energy Commission, Eastview Hospital, Plummer Memorial Hospital, Victoria General Hospital, South Waterloo Hospital, Womens College Hospital, Oshawa General Hospital, Saer~ Coeur Hospital - Hull and Cartierville.
The European Centre for Nuclear Research (CERN) at Geneva recently received a complete quadrupo~ magnet from AEG. This magnet, manufactured in AEGis Berlin Large Machine Factory, produces a constant field gradient b e t ~ e n its four poles and is being mounted in the beam trajectory of the 28-GeV-synchrotron. It is supposed to render possible the gradual extraction of the proton beam. A further order which AEG received from CERN is for the manufacture of a ll0-t-shell magnet for a spark chamber. ~l~is magnet will produce a homogeneous magnetic field of 18000 Gauss in an air gap of 50 em aed will be used to observe and analyze particle orbits. Despite the high standards set for the constancy of the exciting power as well as for the dimensional tolerances of the magnetic yokes, an additional correction of the particle trajectory both in the injection and extraction phase is necessary. Thi~ ts achieved by means of so-called pole face wihdings, i.e. high precision correction coils in vacuum degassed glassfibre - east resin insulation, KEG is supslying such pole face windingJ for the Hamburg 6-GeV-electron synchrotron tDESY) and the 6-GeV-electron synchrotron fNINA), which is being built by the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Auther~y CtrKAEA) at Liverpool. -