FUTURE OF ATOMIC ENERGY
TO give any estimate of when atomic energy can be applied to constructive purposes is impossible. What now is known is only how to use a fairly large quantity of uranium. The use of quantities sufficiently small to operate, say, a car or an aeroplane, is as yet impossible. No doubt it will be achieved, but nobody can say when. Nor can one predict when materials more common than uranium can be used to supply atomic energy. Presumably all materials used for this purpose will be among the heavier elements of high atomic weight. Those elements are relatively scarce because of their l.esser stability. Most of these materials may already have disappeared by radioactive disintegration. So though the release of atomic energy can be, and no doubt will be, a great boon to mankind, that may not be for some time.— Professor Albert Einstein in the Daily Telegraph, London.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 10, Issue 29, 25 September 1946, Page 4
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