Word: aec
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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ATOMIC REACTOR for big surface ships is being pushed by AEC. After giving Westinghouse Electric Corp. a preliminary contract for research and design last October, the AEC has asked Congress for $25 million to build a fullscale, dry-land prototype at its Idaho test center...
...policy fight when the Hoover Commission task force on water and power brings out its report next month. Headed by Jones & Laughlin's Admiral Ben Moreell, the task force plans to recommend that the Government either sell off TVA plants to private industry or turn them over to AEC, appropriate no more money for power or reclamation, finance any such projects by selling bonds to the public (without Government guarantee). TVA Democrats are up in arms, accuse the Moreell task force of being "stacked against public power...
...weeks he commuted between the Flat and Las Vegas' luxurious Sands Hotel, while the weather changed often but never pleased the Atomic Energy Commission enough to explode the bomb. When it finally changed for the better last week, Leonard followed the AEC and civil-defense experts into the mock village to report the NATIONAL AFFAIRS story, Rehearsal for Disaster...
ATOMIC FREIGHTER, proposed by President Eisenhower to illustrate the benefits of peacetime atomic energy, will be sailing the high seas by 1957 if Congress approves the necessary funds. According to AEC and the Maritime Administration, the nuclear-powered freighter will cost some $30 million, be in the 10,000 to 15,000 gross-ton class and about 500 ft. long. It will be fitted out as a floating exhibition hall, with a theater seating 1,000, exhibition spaces, a dispensary and accommodations for 75 crewmen and passengers. Annual operating cost: about...
...nuclear materials. There will be no charge for the license and atomic plants producing electricity will come under the same regulatory agencies which now control other electric utilities. Manufacturers who do not build complete reactors, but only supply reactor components, will not have to be licensed. If the AEC must limit licenses or choose between competing applicants, the commission will give top priority to public power or cooperative agencies in high-cost power areas. Next will come private plants in high-cost areas followed by public or cooperative groups in lower-cost areas and finally all other public and private...