U-237 A New Source of Power

At the recent bicentennial conference of the University of Pennsylvania, which took place in Philadelphia, it was reported by Professor Enrico Fe mi, of Columbia University, that physicists in the United States of America and in Japan have succeeded in creating out of ordinary uranium a new element with potentialities as a source of power which are even greater than those of uranium. One pound of uranium U-235 has, it is recorded, been found to be equivalent as a potential power source to 5,000,000 lb. of coal or 3,000,000 lb. of petrol. The new element has been called U-237.