Word: aec
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...succeeding Major General Kenneth D. Nichols, 47, who resigned the post he has held since 1953 to hang out his own shingle in Washington as a consulting engineer. Fields began his career in atomic energy in 1945 as an assistant to Major General Leslie Groves, moving to the AEC in 1947, where he became director of military application...
DIXON-YATES contract has run into another roadblock, this time from the Government's General Accounting Office. GAO's new boss, Comptroller General Joseph Campbell, who voted for the contract as a member of the AEC, has advised the commission to hold it up. He wants ironclad assurances from Ebasco Services Inc., slated to build the big steam plant at West Memphis, Ark., that construction will not cost more than the $104 million estimate. What worries Campbell is a previous Ebasco contract for a steam plant at Joppa, Ill. to supply the AEC. There costs turned...
Last week on its Nevada proving ground the AEC tried something different: it exploded an underground bomb, its first subsurface bomb since a little-publicized experiment...
...AEC gave no more information, but some of the military problems of an underground atom bomb are fairly obvious. Nuclear explosives are getting cheaper and more plentiful, and they can perform with extra oomph many of the familiar military duties of chemical explosives. Items...
BIGGEST URANIUM MINE in the U.S. is being developed by Anaconda Copper on the Laguna Indian reservation in New Mexico. AEC says that Anaconda's Jackpile Mine is the first multimillion-ton deposit to be found in the U.S. Reserves are estimated at 5,000,000 tons or more...