| DR. FRY INTERVIEWED ON ZETA HYDROGEN POWER FROM THE SEA Dr. Fry being interviewed about "Zeta" Zero Energy Thermonuclear Assembly. | ||
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| Tape Master: | 8640 | |
| Catalog #: | 143573 | |
| Clip Number: | 143573-4 | |
| Orginal Film: | UN 3038 A | |
| Timecode: | 01:30:17 - 01:33:18 | |
| Location: | Harlow, Essex | |
| Year Shot: | 1958 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | Yes | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | INDUSTRY/POWER & ENERGY: Atomic / Nuclear LOCATIONS/EUROPE: UK, England, Essex SCIENCE: Nuclear | |
| Description: | Yael Neumann: Dr. Fry, how long have you and your colleagues been working at this experiment? Dr. Fry: We started to design the instillation which is behind us in 1954. Neumann: When did you have your first successful result? Dr. Fry: This machine came in operation in August 1957. Neumann: 1957, Dr. Fry can you tell us why the announcement of your successes has been withheld until this morning? Dr. Fry: There is always a need when you have collaborative agreements; to discuss a question of released material. I want that cut, don’t like it Neumann: Dr. Fry, if so, can you tell us why you have withhold the news of this experiment until now? Dr. Fry: Well naturally one likes to be sure of the measurements which one has taken and the results one obtained. You must understand that the measurements which have to be made on an installation like this, are relatively complicated and take an appreciable amount of time. Neumann: Dr. Fry, as you know very well, there has been all sorts of stories about Admiral Lewis Strauss chairman of American Atomic Energy Authority. Dr. Fry: I’m in trouble here now. Neumann: Dr. Fry, will you comment on news stories that we heard over the past few months about some difference between American Atomic Energy Authority and your own. In that Admiral Lewis Strauss wanted to suppress your success here for American prestige? Dr. Fry: I know no difference between Atomic Energy Authority and the United States Atomic Energy Commission. We were sorry to see those newspaper reports. Neumann: Can you tell us to what degree America lags behind your own research here? Dr. Fry: I have the feeling that American scientists and we are both pleased with the results of which are being open in each country at the present time. Neumann: One final question Dr. Fry, can you say when this experiment may come in to fruition. Dr. Fry: That of course is very difficult question to answer there can be no doubt there must be a long period. In the next stage, we hope all to take the temperatures appreciably higher than we have already reached. After that, there are at least two more stages which one can envisage before the first power station could be built. The time might be anywhere between 10 and 50 years. Neumann: Well thank you very much Dr. Fry. This is Yael Neumann now back to John Daily in New York. | |
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