Word: aec
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...category, including such areas as fuel element fabrication and processing techniques," and keep secret only the military applications of atomic energy. As it is, private enterprise lacks the information on which it can make intelligent decisions, e.g., a utility might invest heavily in a nuclear-fission power plant when AEC is sitting on the facts about a better system...
...committee said that both will be needed. But the committee raised a warning flag against overexpansion in uranium mining and milling. "If military requirements fall off during the early part of the forecast growth of atomic power, a surplus over civilian needs may exist." The committee recommended that AEC ease off on uranium ore-buying, let uranium find its natural price in a free market...
...Truman: "Baruch is the only man to my knowledge who has built a reputation on a self-assumed unofficial status as [presidential] 'adviser.'" Truman said that the 1946 U.S. atomic-control proposals which bore Baruch's name were mainly drawn up by Dean Acheson and former AEC Chairman David Lilienthal. From Hobcaw Barony, his South Carolina plantation, Baruch retorted, "When the full story of the drafting of our atomic-energy proposals is made public, including all and not part of the facts in Mr. Truman's possession, history will show no basis for this display...
...AEC Chairman Lewis L. Strauss announced last week that nuclear tests to be held in the Pacific next spring will "involve less powerful weapons than the largest used in the 1954 tests." Also announced: the series "will be the further development of defense against nuclear attack." This probably means that atomic explosives or atom-armed missiles will be tried against airplanes high in the sky. It will partially meet military complaints that the AEC tests "nuclear devices" rather than practical "weapons systems...
ATOMIC POWER PLANT for Nebraska will be backed by the U.S Government. To help make the power competitive with other sources the AEC will contribute 30% of the estimated $25 million cost of a reactor with a 75,000-kw. capacity (enough for 300,000 homes) for the state-owned Consumers Public Power District. The reactor will reduce the cost of electricity from 11 mills per kw-h to 8 mills per kwh. North American Aviation will build the reactor, start work next year and have it finished...