Word: aec
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...trouble in Panama has repercussions that echo all the way to the Livermore, Calif., laboratories of Project Ploughshare, where the AEC is investigating the peaceful uses of atomic energy. Ploughshare scientists are bringing their calculations to a high polish, for if a new Isthmian canal is to be dug, nuclear explosives may be used. And Ploughshare men are sure that they can blast a wide sea-level canal in a couple of years at a fraction of the cost of conventional digging...
Adams' crust piercer, which he patented and assigned to the AEC, is a high-temperature nuclear reactor designed to melt its way into rock. The reactor is 2 ft. to 3 ft. in diameter, and its active material (uranium oxide) is enclosed in a cylinder of beryllium oxide, which serves as a heat insulator. The lower point, mostly tungsten, is heavy, while the upper point, mostly beryllium, is light...
...these days of massive U.S. Government-supported and -sponsored research, dominated by NASA and the AEC, your fine cover on Nelson Glueck and the panorama of modern archaeology [Dec. 13] demonstrated many oft-forgotten truths! Among them: genius is still the product of an individual brain; pure scientific research may be utterly unrelated to pyramided teamwork or expensive gadgetry; science is by no means restricted to physics, chemistry and biology, in spite of the fact that neither Nobel (science) Prizes nor most of our high school curricula recognize any other fields; much research of the highest kind can be pursued...
Until last year, our knowledge of the contamination of the Arctic food chain was nonexistent. There is now before the AEC for approval a proposal for a comprehensive program of research on the contamination of Alaskan Arctic fauna and flora. This proposal has been pending for months. It must be approved and shortly...
Once he made his discovery, Dr. Pruitt began a loud vocal opposition to the AEC's Project Chariot, which was a plan to use nuclear explosives to blast a spacious harbor in the Alaskan coast. The side effects, he said, would harm the Eskimos even more. Although he was fired from the university, he continued to make all the noise he could about the danger of feeding more fallout into the Eskimo food chain. The AEC's present management now watches the Eskimos carefully and measures their body burden as it creeps ever higher...