Word: aec
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...become available for commercial use in Chicago, where the Atomic Energy Commission is dickering with Commonwealth Edison Co. to pipe a "token amount" of nuclear electricity into the company's system by 1956. The power will be generated by the $17 million, 5,000-kw. boiling-water reactor AEC is building for its Argonne National Laboratory, operated by the University of Chicago...
URANIUM STRIKE in Wyoming may turn into one of the biggest yet. Part-time prospector and Machine-shop Operator Neil McNeice hit a rich ore deposit 45 miles east of Riverton. American Smelting & Refining considers the area so promising that it will operate with the AEC a uranium-buying station at Riverton...
DIXON-YATES PLAN to let two private southern utility companies, rather than TVA, supply additional power for the Atomic Energy Commission in Kentucky and Tennessee (TIME, June 28), has finally been approved by the AEC. But the AEC still needs approval of the contract by Congress, which has put off an investigation of the deal until after the elections...
...halls of the Pentagon, the Atomic Energy Commission, the byways of the National Security Council, the White House and Congress. It was a continuing report on the men, the science, the strategy and the politics involved. Some stories were short, some full-length cover stories, on men such as AEC Chairmen Lilienthal, Dean and Strauss, on Scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer, and a cover story on the H-bomb itself (TIME, April...
...AEC will supply nuclear fuel elements (presumably uranium enriched with fissionable 11-235) to Atomic Energy, of Canada, Ltd. After use in Canada's new heavy-water reactor, AEC will purify the fuel elements chemically and will buy some of the products (presumably plutonium) extracted from them...