Word: aec
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Loud protests greeted the decision. Even scientists thought that AEC put the horse behind the cart. They felt that power plants were not a problem for cloistered academicians, but for engineers. Some industrialists grumbled that if AEC's slow, cautious approach had been tried on the internal combustion engine, physicists would still be riding to work on their bicycles. Monsanto Chemical's Executive Vice President Dr. Charles Thomas has argued: "We can't go out today and build a power plant that is a very good power plant. But to go from A to E you have...
...Work." Last winter AEC agreed to launch another major assault on the power problem. Then, under urging from the military (who had become more & more interested in atomic propulsion for ships, aircraft, etc.), AEC decided to centralize its power projects at the Argonne laboratory near Chicago. Under the supervision of hardheaded, 41-year-old Director Walter Zinn, Argonne will choose between three different approaches to a power reactor. Construction on one of them will be started early next year...
Atomic Power. Commercial atomic power plants, says the AEC, are not just around the corner. Two "nuclear reactors" for producing power have been authorized and should be in operation in two or three years. But the commission warns that they will not be commercial. It thinks that fairly practical plants, still experimental, will be available within ten years...
Construction. The AEC tells little about its vast building program, expected to cost $1,250,000,000. The Brookhaven National Laboratory on Long Island, with its nuclear reactor, is "well under way." Fifteen thousand workers are busy at Hanford, Wash., presumably expanding the vast plutonium works. The super-secret weapons plant and laboratory at Los Alamos, N. Mex. are being renovated and extended...
That was about all the AEC saw fit to tell...