Word: aec
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...swallows, showed radioactive concentrations 500,000 times greater than normal after feeding on diatom-eating insects. Some animals, e.g., jack rabbits, were also affected after eating grass that had been irradiated, probably by particles escaping from Hanford's chimneys. None of the present radiation is dangerous, thanks to AEC precautions, but if the radioactive material in the Columbia were allowed to reach the maximum level considered safe for ordinary drinking water, fish from the river would soon be unfit for food...
Pressed to comment on Bhabha's fore cast, AEC Chairman Lewis Strauss disclosed what most scientists already knew: the U.S. (like Russia and Britain) has long been experimenting with fusion power on "a moderate scale." But, he added, H-power is a long-range project, and, barring an early, unforeseen "breakthrough," uranium will be the standard reactor fuel for some time to come...
...AEC revealed that one U.S. town has briefly been supplied all its electricity by a small atomic reactor. In a special test, Arco, Idaho (pop. 1,200) was cut off from its regular power supply for an hour last July 17, drew its current solely from a 2,000-kw. boiling-water-type "Borax" reactor at the AEC's testing station 20 miles away...
...Only Philosophy." Dodge, who took no part in the AEC-Dixon-Yates negotiations, and had no financial interest in the outcome, left the Budget Bureau seven months before the contract was signed. He told Kefauver's subcommittee that his decision on TVA power was not aimed to favor any philosophy or any utility. Said Joe Dodge: "The only philosophy I was interested in ... was getting the budget down...
Parrying questions from Kefauver. Dodge argued that his policy had benefited both TVA and the taxpayer. Kefauver conceded that if the original Electric Energy. Inc. contract had been signed, "you would never have heard one squeak out of any of us." But he insisted that the Dixon-Yates-AEC contract, as finally drawn, had gone "behind the back...