Word: aec
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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NUCLEAR ELECTRICITY for rural co-ops will be slow in coming because of inflation. With costs zooming, American Machine & Foundry backed out of deal with AEC to construct reactor for proposed rural co-op at Elk River, Minn., and Foster Wheeler Corp. withdrew offer to supply reactor for another co-op at Grand Rapids...
...contract, chairman of the Southern Co., vice president and director of the Alabama, Georgia, Gulf and Mississippi Power Companies; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. When the Atomic Energy Commission contracted with Middle South Utilities head Edgar Dixon and Yates to build a plant near Memphis to supply the AEC with power, the deal was bitterly attacked by public power proponents as a scheme to undercut TVA, became a major 1956 campaign issue...
...Minute. Other knowledge has come from studying seismograph records of the U.S.'s great H-bomb tests in the Pacific in 1954. The U.S. Atomic Energy Commission gave the seismologists no help at all, but Dr. Bullen figured out the exact times of all four blasts. Apparently the AEC is a creature of habit: it exploded all its H-bombs at an exact multiple of five minutes after 6 p.m. Greenwich mean time. According to Bullen's figuring, Test Bravo (which killed the Japanese fisherman with radioactive fallout) exploded at 45 minutes, zero seconds past...
...Toronto, Bullen renewed his plea for scientific explosions. This time he got a part of what he wanted. Dr. Willard F. Libby, scientist-commissioner of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, wired him that the AEC will explode this week a smallish atomic charge 800 ft. below the surface of a Nevada mountainside. Libby told the time (Sept. 14, 10 a.m. Eastern daylight-saving time) and place (North 890600 and East 635000 on the Nevada state grid system). If there is a delay of more than two minutes in firing the shot. the test will be postponed for 24 hours...
FIRST POWER REACTOR built completely by U.S. private industry has been licensed by AEC to start operating in San Francisco area. The boiling-water reactor, made by General Electric Co., late this year will begin supplying 5,000 kw. (enough to serve a city of 15,000) to Pacific Gas & Electric...