Word: aec
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...morning of Sept. 4, near the small Colorado town of Rifle (pop. 2,200), the Atomic Energy Commission will set off a 40-kiloton underground nuclear blast that will shake the earth for miles around. Project Rulison is part of AEC's program for developing the peaceful uses of nuclear explosives. It is designed to release natural gas trapped in rock 8,000 ft. underground. If successful, it will be followed by similar detonations with a total explosive yield of 20 megatons, 500 times that of the first blast. The plan has also inspired another kind of blast - from...
...Environmental Policy Act becomes law, the result may well affect every imaginable special interest-airlines, highway builders, mining companies, real estate developers. As for the effect on federal agencies, Jackson predicts: "The law will immediately hit the Atomic Energy Commission's nuclear power program by requiring the AEC to curb thermal pollution. It will have an immediate impact on all defense programs-everything from the siting of ABM missiles to chemical and biological warfare. It will affect federally financed highway programs and every Army Corps of Engineers project...
Although both the AEC's yearly grants of $1.35 million to Harvard researchers and of $35 million to the CEA will remain constant, general inflation causes five to six per cent yearly decrease in the purchasing power of these funds...
Francis N. Pipkin, professor of Physics, who is in charge of AEC grants to Harvard, said that the funds granted to Harvard researchers for equipment will depreciate about &80,000 this year. This, he said, will seriously affect CEA research...
...insisting that it would only stimulate the Russians into building one too. In the hysterical climate of the early 1950s, his anti-H-bomb stand and his well-known earlier association with Communists led to the lifting of his security clearance. In the celebrated 1954 hearing that followed, the AEC refused to reinstate his clearance but made it clear that it was not questioning his loyalty, only his veracity, conduct and associations...