Du Pont Bomb memo

•At Fermi Number One Fast Breeder reactor in Monroe, Michigan, a special anti-meltdown device was installed to deal with the remote possibility of a meltdown.[b.] The anti-meltdown device failed, blocking the flow of molten sodium through the reactor core and initiating a meltdown sequence. [lvi] [c.] The student is invited to notice that the anti-

This was Ike’s first introduction to atomic weapons, and he was appalled.

The problem for General Motors, as I saw it in 1922, was to get the advantages of volume by buying on general contracts such items as tires, steel, stationery, rags, batteries, blocks, acetylene, abrasives, and the like, and at the same time to permit the divisions to have control over their own affairs. In a preliminary memorandum I argued that co