"Although it had been known for months that something extremely important and very 'hush-hush' was going on in an area known vaguely as Deep River, it was not until the echoes from 2 or 3 atomic bombs dropped on Japanese cities last summer had reverberated around the world that some authentic news of the purpose of the plant became general knowledge."

Mention Deep River and one would immediately mention AECL, for without the plant, there would have been no town.

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