Pontecorvo’s Help To Russians
(Rec. 8 p.m.) LONDON, August 13. The nve-year-old riddle of what the runaway Harwell scientist, Bruno Pontecorvo is doing behind the Iron Curtain was solved yesterday, the “News Chronicle” reported. A Russian professor at the atomic conference said that much of the design of the Soviet atom piles was based on Dr. Pontecorvo’s calculations. , , . Professor Vladimir Vladimirski surprised the delegates in dealing with the advances Russia had made in the design of a heavy water research reactor. , , When an American delegate asked how the Russians worked out the complex theory of conditioning uranium fuel rods and control rods in the pile, Dr. Vladimirski answered: “Of course we used Professor Pontecorvo’s calculations here.” Dr. Pontecorvo, who was born in] Italy, came to Britain after the war and became a naturalised British subject. He was one of the British party at the Washington Conference i on building the first atomic pile. He| disappeared in 1950 while he was on holiday in Italy.
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Press, Volume XCII, Issue 27737, 15 August 1955, Page 11
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