50 years ago, the United States wanted to deflate the helium stockpile
Excerpt from the April 17, 1971 issue of Science News
ln the 1970s, the government tried and failed to get away from stockpiling helium. In 2021, there’s still a helium reserve — and the government is still trying to get rid of it.
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Helium: Should it be conserved? — Science News, April 17, 1971
To avoid some of the loss and provide a stockpile against future needs, the United States Government, in the late 1950s, established a helium conservation program.…