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The atomic age challenge to steel

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Some months ago the submarine Nautilus was in dock for refueling. It had traveled 60,000 miles, but the total uranium used would make a lump smaller than a light bulb. This is only one example that the Atomic Age is here with us, now! How and where does this incredible Atomic Age challenge the first and greatest of America’s basic industries?

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  1. Tubular Products Div., The Babcock & Wilcox Co., Beaver Falls, Pa., USA

    Edward A. Livingstone (Vice-President and Head, consultant)

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This address was given at the Annual Dinner of the 15th Annual Electric Furnace Steel Conference, Pittsburgh, December 1957.

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Livingstone, E.A. The atomic age challenge to steel. JOM 10, 111–114 (1958). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03397863

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