Recently I came across my copy of Freeman Dyson's 1981 lecture, "Quick Is Beautiful," in which the mathematical physicist spoke about "ways in which the scientific community may help solve some of the urgent practical problems" facing humankind. Among the problems he described in his talk was the development of nuclear reactors, and how, in the mid-1950s, the fledgling General Atomics division of General Dynamics assembled a group of consultants (including Dyson) to come up with ideas for viable concepts that the company might pursue to commercialization. The team, under the leadership of physicist Edward Teller (a lead developer of the first thermonuclear bomb), proposed three novel systems. One was "built, tested, licensed, and sold within less than three years," and called the TRIGA reactor, an acronym for Training, Research, Isotopes, General Atomics. According to the company, the TRIGA reactor became "the most widely used non-power nuclear reactor in the world." To Dyson, it exemplified what he meant by "Quick Is Beautiful," a title that may have been inspired by economist E. F. Schumacher's
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机译:最近,我遇到了我的弗里曼塞森1981年的讲座,“快速漂亮”,其中数学物理学家谈到了“科学界可能有助于解决人类面对的一些迫切实际问题”的方式。在他谈话中描述的问题是,核反应堆的发展,以及如何在20世纪50年代中期,一般性动态的删除总经理司组织了一群顾问(包括Dyson)来提出可行概念的想法该公司可能追求商业化。该团队,在物理学家爱德华柜员的领导下(第一枚热核炸弹的铅开发商),提出了三种新型系统。一个是“在不到三年内建造,测试,许可,并销售,并称为Triga反应堆,培训,研究,同位素,一般原子的首字母缩写。据该公司称,Triga反应堆成为“世界上使用的最广泛的非电力核反应堆”。对于Dyson来说,它举例说明了他的意思是“快速美丽”,这是由经济学家E. F. Schumacher的启发的标题
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