Word: aec
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Covering the thinly settled country where the panic took place. Dr. Graves has talked with physicians, civic leaders and newspapermen in each small town. He has assured them that they have nothing to worry about. The AEC is not planning to test hydrogen bombs in Nevada, not even baby H-bombs (if such things exist...
When the bombs begin popping, Graves promised. AEC representatives will be in radio contact with the Nevada test site and will tell the public when each bomb is scheduled. If a harmless sound wave hits the region, Graves hopes that panic will not sweep the gulches again...
Congressional Democrats last week figured they had found a way to kill the Dixon-Yates contract. By a strict party-line vote of 10 to 8, the Joint Congressional Committee on Atomic Energy passed a resolution calling on AEC to cancel its $107 million contract to provide 600,000 kw. of power from a new steam plant to be built at West Memphis, Ark. Then the committee proceeded to make it as tough as possible for AEC to ignore its wishes. It rescinded a waiver voted last year on the committee's right to study the contract...
While the lawyers' recommendation will probably be accepted by SEC, it will not necessarily be the end of the Dixon-Yates row. Democrats in Congress are already planning to issue a report blasting the contract as a bad one and urging AEC to back out. What is more, they think that AEC will welcome the chance. TVA could then overcome most Democrats' objections to the present contract by signing a contract directly with Dixon-Yates, thus eliminating AEC as the broker...
...never been tried as a byproduct of another operation, such as oil producing, that already pays the basic costs. In any case, Shepherd has applied for a patent on his method and is getting ready to ship about ten tons of filter sand from his holdings to AEC for processing...