Word: aec
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...July, AEC Official H. M. Parker reported an average body-burden increase of 50% in a year. One Eskimo's count increased by 112%; the highest burden measured was 1230 nanocuries. This is more than one-third of the maximum permissible amount (3,000 nanocuries) established by the International Committee on Radiation Protection...
...inside big cities. All eleven of the nuclear electricity generators built so far are located outside heavily populated areas, but New York's Consolidated Edison Co. wants to build a million-kilowatt nuclear plant in the heart of New York City, only two miles from Rockefeller Center. If AEC grants this request and others like it that will follow, it will surely arouse protests from nervous neighbors. If it refuses them, it will slow the development of cheap nuclear electricity, which it is charged with hastening...
Electrical companies can build on this scale because they are pooling more power over longer interconnecting lines. At the same time, the AEC has encouraged experimentation on reactors that would be bigger and better than current ones that use water to transfer their heat. General Dynamics is working on a reactor that transfers its heat by gases; North American Aviation is experimenting with a sodium-graphite reactor; Babcock & Wilcox is developing a heavy-water reactor...
...conventional costs (about 10 mills). Pacific Gas & Electric's first atomic plant at Humboldt Bay, Calif., which went critical two months ago, is expected to equal natural-gas costs at 9 mills. P. G. & E. plans to build twelve more atomic power plants by 1980, and the AEC estimates that commercial atomic power will be competitive everywhere within five years...
...atomic surge has compelled producers of conventional fuels to refine their own systems, lowering still further the competitive cost point that atomic fuel must reach. Power men are convinced that atomics will surmount this competition when the second generation of reactors arrives. Last week the AEC announced that its Idaho Falls testing station has generated electricity for the first time from plutonium, which actually re-creates itself as it produces power. That breakthrough will speed the arrival of advanced "breeder" reactors that will come close to satisfying man's quest for eternal energy...