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n. (atomic pile English)
Usage examples of "atomic piles".
Keeping the atomic piles cool as they cooked plutonium took a lot of water from Cherry Creek and the South Platte.
That's why there's been such a rush to build atomic piles, to acquire Carolinum, to produce more Plattnerite.
Inspecting industrial atomic piles for the Defense Authority, he had seen awesome demonstrations in which a tiny sample of sodium or aluminum or platinum was cautiously thrust into the hot reactor through an opening in the lead-and-concrete shielding, and came out again as an untouchable mixture of deadly radioactives in which cautious analysis revealed the triumphant traces of man-made magnesium or silicon or gold.
By working fifteen hours out of twenty-four, I managed to keep my spacewarp drive in one piece, my atomic piles reasonably cool, and my hull seams tight.
They are simply careful about allowing leaks to pinpoint their atomic piles and reprocessing plants.
It had tapped the atomic piles, Bell thought, which was the reason he could not start.
It had knocked out their electrical system temporarily, burned out some of its parts and caused the A-G system to fail, although the atomic piles were impervious to such currents.
Naturally the big atomic piles and other power unit stations were remotely controlled.
Any minute now, Baley thought, Ill be figuring out how many tons of yeast product New York eats per day and how many cubic feet of water we drink and how many megawatts of power the atomic piles deliver per hour.
Any minute now, Baley thought, I'll be figuring out how many tons of yeast product New York eats per day and how many cubic feet of water we drink and how many megawatts of power the atomic piles deliver per hour.
But he had never acted as crew on a vessel, knew nothing of physics, was ignorant as to the workings of power plants and atomic piles.
Self-propelled atomic piles held an honored place in the berserker arsenal of weapons.