Word: aec
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...normal contract standards, Dixon-Yates is a good deal for the Government. In previous AEC contracts for power negotiated under the Truman Administration, the Government had to pay most of the increase if costs ran over the estimate...
...terms have been approved by AEC, the Attorney General, the Acting Comptroller General and TVA. But the contract cannot become effective until the Joint Atomic Energy Committee considers it for 30 days while Congress is in session, a provision of law which could delay the contract until the next Congress meets...
...Joint Committee, which will consider the contract this week, has the right to waive the waiting period and thereby allow AEC to go ahead. At his news conference last week, President Eisenhower made it clear that he intends to stand solidly behind the contract terms. He said the Government was perfectly and splendidly protected...
November 1949: President Truman asked AEC members for written opinions on whether or not to go ahead with an all-out effort to build a superbomb. He found two for, two against and one astraddle...
...Attack. Among those who have attacked the book since publication are former AEC Chairman Gordon Dean and many leading atomic scientists, including Enrico Fermi and Hans Bethe. The comment of Dr. I. I. Rabi, present chairman of the AEC's General Advisory Committee, is a sample: "A sophomoric science-fiction tale, to be taken seriously only by a psychiatrist...