ATOMIC ENERGY CONTROL

Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24985, 20 September 1946, Page 7

ATOMIC ENERGY CONTROL

importance of raw MATERIALS LITTLE URANIUM IN UNITED STATES LONDON, Sept. 18. The question of controlling raw materials was the most hopeful approach to the atomic energy problem, said ’Professor M. L. OlipKnt one™ Britain s foremast atomic scientists, speak--1D?-®‘ L¥^ er ?' P® r ‘ y council meeting. i.JI , added ,. that . Belgium ' had the largest supplies of uranium, but she men ? ber of the Atomic Energy Commission. There were also targe supplies of uranium in Canada, P r j zl i . dl , a - the Dutch East Indies, and Australia. There was none in States’ and precl °us little in the United From the point of view of raw materials, America, therefore, was not important It was not surprising in view of this that other nations should be suspicious when the United States advocated control. Countries with a big industrial background would not always be the only ones able to carry out the segregation °i uranium. The engineering and metallurgical problems which had to be solved before atomic energy could b f_used for industrial purposes were straightforward, but it would take time before use could be made of atomic rgy .k )n industry - . Russia would solve the problem before Britain, and America would solve it before either oi tnem. "There would be no time to take precautions against the atomic bomb, which would probably be i fired by rocket," he said. “The only protection for an individual would be to get behind one or two feet of concrete a reasonable distance from the bomb. There is no cure for a person affected. You cant do anything about these rays?