Word: aec
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bomb dropped on Hiroshima, physicists and businessmen have been promising that peaceful and cheap nuclear electricity was just around the corner. The corner has been tough to turn. Early estimates of cost and efficiency were overly optimistic; private utilities were wary in spite of $1.3 billion spent on AEC research and generous Government fuel-cost waivers and reimbursements for design work. But now the corner has been rounded, and commercial nuclear power has gone critical...
...pure physics. Chicago no longer has Fermi, Urey or Libby, but it does have the Enrico Fermi Institute and the off-campus Argonne National Laboratory, which it runs for the AEC on a $79 million budget (paid by AEC), compared with $68 million for the university itself. To help fill the Midwest gap in research and defense contracts. Beadle counts on a new 12.5 billion-volt synchrotron at Argonne to lure physicists. Last month NASA began building a new space lab adjoining the Fermi Institute...
...third restriction, which would have given the AEC control over all scientific information released by the CEA staff to Soviet-bloc scientists, was eliminated from the final contract at Harvard's insistence. Instead a provision was substituted which stipulates that "requests for unpublished information from foreign nations may be filled, but, when appropriate, information will be requested in return...
Dean Ford characterized the final contract provisions as "irritating," but said they represent a definite improvement over the "intolerable limitations" originally demanded by the AEC...
Although the Accelerator--which began operating last March--is run jointly by Harvard and M.I.T., it is located on Harvard land and the University handled all negotiations with the AEC...