Word: aec
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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ATOMIC TOWNS built by the U.S. Government will be opened to private ownership. The AEC has decided to sell 10,000 houses, hundreds of commercial buildings and vacant lots in Oak Ridge, Tenn. and Richland, Wash., will give present residents priority, but will also sell to other homeowners and business interests. Assessed value: $89.5 million...
...studying seven more applications. The foreign share will probably go to most of the 26 nations with which the U.S. now has bilateral agreements for cooperation in atomic research. (Scientists from 29 nations are being or have been trained in reactor technology at the AEC's Argonne National Laboratory near Chicago...
NUCLEAR DATA for peacetime use will soon be almost 100% declassified. The AEC has already released 50% of the needed data, is currently declassifying another 30%. To help businessmen get the facts they need from the 20% still secret, the AEC has granted "access permits" to 602 companies, is clearing another 60 to 70 monthly. This June it will also set up nuclear libraries across the U.S., will let businessmen use some AEC facilities for their own research...
ATOM POWER PLANTS will be built by seven public and private power groups, if they can get clearance and financial aid from the AEC. The seven groups (among them: utilities in Alaska, Ohio, Michigan, Minnesota, Massachusetts) want to build small 5,000-kw. to 40,000-kw. plants, costing upwards of $10 million each, turn out power competitive with conventional power plants...
Again and again the committee came back to its biggest point: AEC should share its nuclear knowledge with private companies, even set up its own "alert, forward-looking" special staff to shift as much emphasis to the peaceful atom as has so far been placed on the bomb. Both for good business and good international relations, the committee proposed that the U.S. set up a definite timetable for the delivery of nuclear power plants, which backward nations need far more than the U.S. Said the committee: "Atomic power may be the most tangible symbol of America's will...