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Luke said: I'll get that stuff out in six weeks from March 1st if it's the last thing I do.

Martin said: It may be.

What is the, matter? I said.

Luke and Martin looked at each other.

There are some hazards, said Luke.

That was the term they used for physical danger. Luke went on being frank. The hazards might be formidable. No one knew much about handling plutonium; it might well have obscure toxic properties. There would not be time to test each step for safety, they might expose themselves to illness, or worse.

 

, , . , : There was a mutter from Luke's sick-bed which spread round Barford: The only thing they (the doctors) still don't know is whether to label mine a lethal dose or only near lethal.

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In front of her were the instruments which she had been taught to read; she was a competent girl, I thought, she would have made an admirable nurse. There was one of the counters whose ticking I would expect in any Barford laboratory; there was a logarithmic amplifier, a DC amplifier, with faces like speedometers, which would give a measure she had picked up some of the jargon of the neutron flux.

On the bench was pinned a sheet of graph paper and it was there that she was to plot the course of the experiment. As the heavy water was poured in, the neutron flux would rise: the points on the graph would lead down to a spot where the pile had started to run, where the chain reaction had begun:

That's going to be the great moment, said Mary.

 

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Even so he was crowded until navigating the room was a difficult task. He could not open the door without first closing the closet door, and vice versa. It was impossible for him anywhere to traverse the room in a straight line. To go from the door to the head of the bed was a zigzag course that he was never quite able to traverse without collisions. Having settled the difficulty of the conflicting doors, he had to steer sharply to the right to avoid the kitchen. Next he sheered to the left, to escape the foot of the bed; but this sheer, if too generous, brought him against the corner of the table. With a sudden twitch and lurch, he terminated the sheer and bore off to the right along a sort of canal one bank of which was the bed, the other the table. When the one chair in the room was at its usual place before the table, the canal was unnavigable.

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What is stopping them (the neutrons)?...

The engineering is all right.

The heavy water is all right.

The uranium is all right.

No, it blasted well can't be.

That must be it. It must be the uranium there's something left there stopping the neuts.

 

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, , , , , : You'll give me the lift down the road, Lofty?... I know I am safe with an old driver... , ; , : .

, , . . . , : lorry, engine, cab ( ), the driving mirror, the booster gear, the lights, the foot board, the back axle, the headlights, the chassis.

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to go at a fair lick, to go at a fair crack, to be cracking along, to swing on the handbrake, to have one's toe down, to pull up with a jerk, to have the stick out, to hang on somebody's tail, to be done for speeding. a smash-up. . lorry, a tub () old wagon. anchors.

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