Word: aec
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Localized to an industrial area of the U.S., the AEC's estimates would mean that a Bikini-sized H-bomb dropped on Cleveland with the wind northwest could level the city, threaten the life of everyone in Pittsburgh, and spread lethal ash across a strip of West Virginia, into Virginia and Maryland (see map). If the wind were stronger than it was at the time of the Bikini test, the fatal fallout from a Cleveland bomb could reach all the way to Washington...
...AEC's computations are based on the worst possible conditions, i.e., they assume that no one would take protective measures. Paradoxically, old and simple steps are highly effective against the new and horrible peril. Taking shelter in an old-fashioned Kansas cyclone cellar with a 3-ft. ceiling of earth until the fallout is over will reduce the immediate radiation absorbed by a human being to a safe level, even in the worst fallout area...
Weather-Plagued Test. Washington's report on fallout was prompted by two main considerations. President Eisenhower and the AEC wanted to re-emphasize the need for 1) civil defense in the U.S., and 2) a continued campaign for realistic international control of atomic weapons...
...atomic testing grounds on the Nevada desert last week, fallout was a key consideration. For four days in a row, the AEC postponed the scheduled first shot in a new series of tests-the explosion of an "atomic device" atop a 500-ft. tower. On the first scheduled test day, weather calculations showed that the radioactive cloud from a dawn explosion would be passing over the town of Caliente, Nev. (pop. 1,000), about 50 miles away, at about the time schoolchildren were standing on the street corners waiting for buses. For the next three days, there were similar problems...
...AEC ELECTRICITY DEMAND has made it the nation's biggest consumer of power, surpassing such big users as General Motors, Alcoa and Ford. Last year AEC burned 18.9 billion kwh, 4% of the U.S. total, expects its demands to grow to 9% this year, and 13% of all power used...