Word: aec
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Libby entered the inner circle of the AEC in 1950, when Chairman Gordon Dean appointed him to the General Advisory Committee. From his inside vantage point he could watch and play a role in the measured march of the nuclear weapons: first the Abomb; then better A-bombs; then the Russian Abomb; then the H-bomb; then the Russian H-bomb; then the fission-fusion-fission bomb. Libby saw why AECommissioners were rarely lighthearted and gay. Then in 1954 he became a commissioner himself, by appointment of President Eisenhower on the recommendation of AEC Chairman Lewis Strauss. When he moved...
...assistants hit the ceiling, but regained their good humor and hung a plaque saying: "On this spot W. F. Libby, 40, stumbled (for three years) on the carbon 14 dating method." Age of Bison. Libby is a solemn, slow-spoken and serious man, and in his office at the AEC he seems weighed down, even a little awed, by the burdens of his position, where a single slip of the tongue may betray a national secret. But when carbon 14 is mentioned, he lights up like a Roman candle. He remembers with special pleasure his dealings with the archaeologists. "They...
...reactor. "The Russian papers are good," said one U.S. scientist. "The Russians are well abreast of reactor developments, and in some cases they have tried a few tricks of their own." Said another man: "U.S. scientists sorting through these papers have actually sent a few whistles up and down AEC corridors." Probably the papers most useful to the scientists will be of no public interest at all. They will be minute details about obscure matters. One British paper, for instance, tells about the troublesome chemistry of ruthenium, a rare element that had almost no importance before atomic science was born...
...seemed highly improbable in 1953 that Memphis. TVA's second biggest municipal customer, would withdraw from TVA and forfeit its substantial revenue from retailing TVA power. A more plausible solution would be for AEC, which was then gobbling up 25% of TVA's output, to buy power from a private utility (as it was already doing elsewhere). AEC Chairman Lewis Strauss agreed with Dodge that this was feasible. So did Electric Energy, Inc. President J. W. McAfee, whose Joppa, 111. plant was built to supply AEC's installation at Paducah, Ky.. and could have provided...
...Congress in January 1954, President McAfee decided against the plant expansion at Joppa. Instead, McAfee brought in Middle South Utilities. Inc. President Edgar H. Dixon (who was also Electric Energy, Inc.'s vice president). Dixon. with The Southern Co.'s Eugene A. Yates, eventually contracted with AEC to build a steam plant at West Memphis. Its 600,000 kw. were to be fed into TVA to replace the power drained off by the AEC, and thus would only indirectly have supplied the AEC plant at Paducah. Nonetheless, as crinkly-eyed Joe Dodge cracked: "When it comes...