Word: aec
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Atomic batteries to power radio transmitters have already been used in U.S. space satellites, and an AEC project is developing a special reactor for use inside space vehicles (see SCIENCE). Before many years, AEC predicts, nuclear engines will be propelling vehicles through space, as they already propel submarines, surface warships, and the nuclear merchant ship Savannah. AEC's Project Rover is actively working toward that...
Dispelling a Cloud. After slow beginnings, the development of power reactors has reached the point where, according to a recent AEC report to the President, atomic power is "on the threshold of competitiveness with conventional power" in parts of the U.S. where coal and oil are relatively expensive. During the 1970s, AEC predicted, nuclear power will become economically competitive "throughout most of the country...
...center's current work is Nobel Prizewinning Exobiologist Joshua Lederberg's effort to build a TV-microscope to land on Mars and sample possible life there. Even more conducive to Big Science at Palo Alto is Sterling's most audacious 1962 coup: a $114 million AEC contract to build a two-mile linear accelerator, which eventually will be the world's most powerful atom smasher...
...gross annual volume heads the international list of contractors. Among other things, Kiewit has built the Air Force's base in Thule, Greenland, a giant radio telescope in West Virginia, a Titan missile base in California, Minuteman bases in North and South Dakota, a $1.2 billion AEC gaseous diffusion uranium processing plant in Ohio...
Woods's only important liability lies in his association with the Dixon-Yates case. Congressional Democrats accused him of planting one of his men in the Budget Bureau to swing a controversial AEC power contract to a private utility group that retained First Boston as its financial agent. Woods was later exonerated, but the association cost him the chance to head the U.S. foreign aid program last year when Oregon's Senator Wayne Morse threatened to fight his nomination...