Word: aec
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Atomic Energy Commission has no control over medical radium. The states license a dozen makers of radon seeds, and keep a watch on their waste disposal. But the AEC's Dr. John Harley is concerned lest some contaminated gold may have found its way into dentures as well as jewelry...
...ordered racial integration of the off-campus faculty club. He was easily accessible to student leaders and appointed students to academic committees. To antiwar activists, Pitzer's main drawback may be his 2½ years (1949 to 1951) as a weapons-oriented director of research for the AEC and his current service on the board of the Rand Corp...
...below the Nevada desert last week, the AEC tested a one-megaton hydrogen device, the largest ever exploded in the U.S. Despite earlier protests from scientists, labor leaders and Howard Hughes, who had feared earthquakes, major property damage and vented radiation, the blast produced only a harmless ground shock and a rock-filled underground cavity similar to that created by the AEC's Project Gas-buggy (TIME...
...reconstruct the story of Germany's A-bomb project, British Historian David Irving interviewed German scientists, studied recently declassified papers, and discovered a supply of captured German documents that had been lying unused and neglected for many years in an AEC warehouse at Oak Ridge, Tenn. From his meticulous research he has put together a chilling account of a project that might have changed the outcome of the war and reduced London or New York, rather than Hiroshima and Nagasaki to radioactive ashes...
...company of Indianapolis, is now being marketed under the trade name Zonomune. It was developed by Lilly in cooperation with scientists at the Atomic Energy Commission and the National Institutes of Health. Using a modified high-speed centrifuge, a research team headed by Dr. Norman G. Anderson of the AEC's Oak Ridge National Laboratory was able to remove 95% of the vaccine impurities that have caused side effects in the past. The Lilly Co. has bought three of the $40,000, 32,000-r.p.m. K-2 centrifuges from the AEC, last month began producing the new vaccine...