Word: aec
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gore "crash program." Strauss's big point is that the U.S., which has available cheap sources of conventional power, does not need A-power as badly as do some foreign nations ; therefore building reactors just for the prestige would be "shortsighted." What the U.S. needs, says the AEC chief, is to utilize its scarce technical skills in an experimental program to find "reactors which will provide economically competitive power," rather than reactors that probably would be obsolescent before they got into operation...
URANIUM BUYING by Government will be extended five years beyond 1962 expiration date of current program. New plan will put fixed price of $8 a Ib. on domestic concentrate, instead of having AEC negotiate separate contracts with producers. AEC will also let miners sell part of ore direct to licensed commercial users for first time...
...shipments from the four-state Colorado Plateau area (90% of U.S. total output) will hit 1.5 million tons worth $46.5 million in fiscal 1956. He predicted that within two years Plateau production will increase to 2,500,000 tons annually. Said Johnson: "During the past two months, the AEC has received and is actively considering more proposals for processing mills than it did in any two-year period before." In 1955, the U.S. had only nine mills operating, with contracts for five new ones. As of last week, there were ten formal mill proposals before AEC, eight for new mills...
...Energy Commission from discussing his report at last summer's Geneva Conference on the Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy, said that radiation from H-bomb tests could cause "tens of thousands" of harmful mutations in the next generation of Americans. And more recently, Thomas E. Murray, member of the AEC, declared that atmospheric contamination "could be catastrophic. A sufficiently large number of such explosions would render the earth uninhabitable to man." He went on to say that the "new power we have in hand can affect the lives of generations still unborn...
Reactors & Chemicals. The three producers are building plants with a capacity of about 1,500,000 Ibs. apiece per year, will thus have enough for both AEC and private needs. Aside from zirconium, other rare metals may come from AEC's program, e.g., thorium, currently under study as a cheap source for nuclear fuel...