Word: aec
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When planning for the accelerator begain in 1954, the 11 million dollar anticipated outlay by the AEC was unusually large. It is worth nothing, however, that last spring, just as Cambridge accelerator started operations, the government approved an expenditure of 114 million to build the two-mile Linear Accelerator near Stanford University in Palo Alto, California...
Considered Permanent. After their notably poor predictions, few scientists, friendly or otherwise, are eager to give firm estimates of how long the new radiation will last. The AEC dodges by predicting that the lowest electrons will be lost in the atmosphere in 150 days, but that some of the highest may stay up much longer. NASA estimates can be interpreted to mean that some of the highest electrons may last for 10,000 years...
...National Institutes of Health puts a ceiling on reimbursing these indirect costs: 15% of direct costs. Congress is now mulling ceilings on research grants from the AEC, the Defense Department, the National Science Foundation, and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. In 1959 federal research cost universities an extra $95 million...
Until 1952 the AEC was E.G. & G.'s only customer. Then, aware that bomb testing might have a limited future, the three partners decided to spread out. They hired their own auditors and lawyers, as well as buyers and salesmen, marketed commercial equipment based on 64 patents held among the three partners. Ebullient "Doc" Edgerton, who still teaches at M.I.T., developed an underwater light and camera that functions at depths as great as seven miles, tested it on seven cruises with famed French Marine Explorer Jacques Cousteau (TIME cover, March 28, 1960). And E.G. & G. even found a foreign...
Despite its drive to diversify, E.G. & G. still makes 85% of its sales to the Government. Along with AEC nuclear tests, the company is timing and measuring NASA's nuclear space engine, Project Rover. This week, NASA will also launch a geodetic survey satellite whose blinking light-made by E.G. & G.-will be visible from outer space for ground observers to track. The capriciousness of Government contracting can be costly for a small company; in 1958, after the U.S. declared a moratorium on nuclear tests, E.G. & G.'s contract with the AEC was slashed overnight from...