Word: aec
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...time, says AEC, was there any danger from escaping radiation. But just the same, added the official statement, it was "a most difficult feat...
...Reader Murray, former member of the AEC (1950-57) is special consultant to the Joint Congressional Committee on Atomic Energy...
Moreover, TVA has ideal customers. Big industry and such agencies as the AEC use power in a steady flow with no peaks to worry about. TVA customers are so grateful for what TVA refers to as its "Henry Ford system" (i.e., lots of electricity at low prices) that they make freer use of their irons, TV sets, frying pans, porch lights and furnaces (nearly half the 650,000 electrically heated homes in the U.S. are in TVA territory). While the average U.S. family used 3,707 kwh. of power last year at a cost...
Libby's laboratory career was interrupted by his service on the Atomic Energy Commission. Although he sturdily rebutted some of the less knowledgeable, most hair-raising claims about the horrors of atomic fallout, Libby did not enjoy his AEC job. He never saw an atomic explosion, and may never see one. Moreover, as he said last week of his AEC experience, "There was constant strain and tension there...
...centrifuge was not forgotten. Atomic Energy Commission scientists kept working on it, as did many Europeans, especially in West Germany. Prominent in this work were Professor Wilhelm Groth, of Bonn University, and Gernot Zippe, who built a gas centrifuge for the U.S.S.R. and was hired in 1958 by the AEC. Zippe returned to Germany last July and is now associated with the Degussa Co. of Frankfurt, which is manufacturing the centrifuges experimentally...