Word: aec
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...AEC POLICY will permit test reactors to be built by private industry for first time. AEC wants U.S. business, not Government, to build and operate reactors needed by industry to test parts of other reactors. AEC now operates nation's only two test reactors, but will not lease them to industry if private reactors are available. Negotiating with AEC to build test reactors are AMF Atomics Ltd. and Battelle Memorial Institute...
ATOM POWER PLANT for first nuclear-powered merchant ship will be built by Babcock & Wilcox Co. To get AEC contract, the company beat out General Electric, Westinghouse and others. Reactor will be advanced model of thermal type used by atom submarine Nautilus...
FIRST NUCLEAR REACTOR for commercial export has been approved by Atomic Energy Commission. Built by North American Aviation, 50-kw. reactor will go to Japan for use in research. AEC will follow with export licenses for reactors to West Germany, The Netherlands and Brazil. 20TH CENTURY-FOX, second biggest U.S. moviemaker, is moving solidly into television's camp. For $30 million, Fox has given National Telefilm Associates rights to distribute 390 of Fox's best-known pre-1948 films (Laura, The Razor's Edge, Gentleman's Agreement, etc.) over network of 112 U.S. TV stations...
...cylinder (about i in. in diameter, 1½ in. long) has a plastic lens at one end, contains a long-lasting tritium "battery" produced at Oak Ridge. It will take twelve years for 'the light to dimmish 50%. Though its radioactivity is low, only persons licensed by the AEC can buy it, but the maker estimates that when the instrument is made available to the public the price will be about...
However, he told the CRIMSON that the British Medical Society and the International Committee on Radiological Protection have decided on a minimum safety factor which is one-tenth of the one currently accepted by the AEC. That is, these organizations feel that the human body can tolerate only ten percent of the radio-strontium which the AEC currently deems safe...