Word: aec
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Finally . . . TIME, if it chooses, can believe the AEC's story of wastebasket recovery. I don't believe...
...committee files for months. And just three weeks ago Hickenlooper himself had publicly praised the "record of loyalty and character in this whole project." With a patient confidence, Lilienthal began to take Hickenlooper's charges apart. For one thing, Hickenlooper had put all the blame on Lilienthal, though AEC and its laboratories (Argonne), atom plants (Hanford) and proving grounds (Eniwetok) are governed by a full five-man commission, and not by Chairman Lilienthal alone. And of more than 500 formal decisions taken by the commission only five had not been unanimous, Lilienthal said...
...AEC had indeed lost many of its top officials, Lilienthal admitted. But it had lost them for the same reasons that made many citizens reluctant to trade the security and rewards of private life for the hazards, the glare and the low pay of Government office. As for the rank & file, he pointed out that AEC's record compared almost exactly with figures on turnover for all Government agencies...
Almost half of AEC's ex-employees had left for "other reasons than their own volition." Some had been fired, or died or retired; some had left on maternity leave. Cracked Lilienthal: "Babies may be evidence of incredible mismanagement, but not on the part of this commission...
...Meaning of Security. The whole process of emergency clearances, Lilienthal went on, had been specifically authorized by law to speed AEC's work. A breakdown of plutonium production was threatened in the overworked Hanford, Wash. plant, for example, and it had been necessary to rush in a corps of workers to expand the plant. "To lose 60 or 90 days [through loyalty checks] at that juncture," said Lilienthal, "was a very serious responsibility for the commission...