Word: aec
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...York Times science editor reported yesterday that a new AEC policy--"adopted last week with no public announcement"--compensates direct and indirect costs incurred by universities in conducting research under Federal grants or contracts. The Times referred to negotiations over the University of Chicago's Argone Laboratory, contracted from the AEC...
...Atoms for Peace proposals of 1953, is supposed to make sure that the reactor is used only for peaceful purposes. The transfer was first approved 13 months ago by John McCone, then chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, and was reaffirmed a few weeks ago when the AEC signed an agreement to supply the uranium fuel. The deal made last week's headlines only after Texas' Republican Senator John Tower heard of it and protested. It was, indeed, hard to see why the U.S. should be handing over a reactor and fissionable material to Communist Tito...
...liquid salt, the AEC hopes, will prove an energy reservoir from which power can be extracted, probably by injecting water into the cavity and taking it out as high-pressure steam, capable of running a turbine. No one expects that the first small explosion (cost: $5,500,000) will yield power cheap enough to be economically competitive. Even if all the energy in the 5-kiloton Domb were recovered as electric power, it would cost nearly $1 per kwh. Conventional coal-fired power stations produce electricity for less than...
...nuclear bombs, even up to 100-megaton size, cost little more than small ones. By successive experiments the AEC lopes to learn how to store the energy of large explosions in salt or rock. If a multimegaton explosion can be safely confined underground, the power it produces may be cheap enough to compete with electricity from conventional sources...
With the test program on his mind, President Kennedy met with white-haired John McCone, AEC chairman under Dwight Eisenhower, a longtime advocate of testing and the man who foresightedly had ordered the tunnels to be dug into Nevada mountains just in case the ban broke down. Now chairman of a Los Angeles steel corporation, McCone was invited to the White House to speak his mind -and, for an hour and a quarter, he did just that. McCone approved Kennedy's decision to resume testing, urged the President not to declare himself against atmospheric tests, since "outer-space tests...