Word: aec
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Government's atomic monopoly, it would set up machinery for licensing companies to make electric power from atomic energy. Under the AEC's paternal eye, the companies would acquire their own reactors and other facilities, but the Government would keep title to nuclear materials which it would lend out. The bill also would allow private citizens to take out patents on atomic-energy developments, and would encourage prospecting for fissionable materials on public lands...
Despite these important new proposals, the heat in the Senate was generated by the shopworn issue of public v. private steam plants. Last month President Eisenhower ordered the AEC to contract with private companies for electricity, which it will be needing beyond the amount already being supplied by the Tennessee Valley Authority...
...Government should stay out of the steam-plant business as much as possible. Led by Senators from the TVA area, e.g., Tennessee Democrat Albert Gore and Alabama Democrat Lister Hill, public-power enthusiasts, mostly Democrats, sided with the TVA. They decided to fight for a rider on the AEC bill that would block the Eisenhower order...
Conference & Study. When Mitchell telephoned Reuther to say that the union terms were too stiff, he was asked up to Reuther's Statler Hotel room. At 2:30 p.m., he arrived and worked out an agreement to arrange 1) union-AEC conferences on community facilities for atomic workers, and 2) an AEC study to improve collective bargaining. At 6:15 p.m., hands were shaken all around; in a special Air Force plane, Swisher flew to Oak Ridge for a back-to-work meeting...
...next day, Swisher called Mitchell: K-25's employees were back at work. Twelve hours later, workers at a secondary plant in Paducah, Ky. were back on the job, and the first actual production strike in AEC history was over...