Word: aec
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from AEC General Manager K. D. Nichols, notifying Oppenheimer of the suspension. The other was Oppenheimer's 43-page answer. The charges against...
...criticized severely for his lack of faith in the economic potentialities of unclear energy. It was then held in congressional circles that a scientist so gloomy as to envisage the abandonment of all unclear power station experiments by 1970, was probably unfit to help shape the policies of the AEC...
...been published to date. Barring that, however, the indictment against Oppenheimer in calmer times would have stirred nothing but contempt for the small minds which put it together with such solemn urgency. Its main charge is based on an opinion the scientist expressed at a meeting of the AEC's Advisory Board in 1950. At that point he opposed the plan to develop the Hydrogen bomb, partly for technical and strategic reasons which apparently retain much force, and partly on grounds of morality. After Truman's decision on the matter, Oppenheimer continued to express his doubts and, if Fortune...
...this decision he sided with President Emeritus James B. Conant who was then a member of the advisory committee of scientists, and the committee chairman, David E. Lilienthal. The whole committee supported this decision but was overruled by Rear Admiral Strauss, then an AEC commissioner...
...process is secret, but the AEC has spent more than $1,000,000 helping International Minerals develop its method of extracting the pasty green uranium compound from phosphates (probably deposited in the rock by sea water). Extracting uranium from phosphates is not new. Scientists have known about it for years, but large-scale production has always been too expensive. By introducing new methods and by making it a byproduct of its normal business, International Minerals makes the old idea pay new dividends. Florida has the world's richest-known phosphate deposits, and the AEC says that, suitably developed...