Word: aec
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...AEC Lifts J. Robert Oppenheimer's Security Clearance: All right. Doctor, turn in your brain...
...opinion, the court ruled that the Atomic Energy Commission must sus pend a "provisional" construction permit for an $83 million, 100,000-kw. nuclear power plant near Monroe, Mich, because "it has not been positively established" that the plant can be operated safely. The AEC license to the Power Reactor De velopment Co. - a combine of Detroit Edison Co., 17 other utilities and seven manufacturing firms - was challenged by a group of unions led by Walter Reuther's United Auto Workers. While they raised the issue of safety, their more important aim was to push the cause of public...
...plant, on which AEC is spending only $4,500,000 of the cost, has been un der construction since 1956 and is sched uled to be completed this fall. It would be the first big U.S. plant with a fast-breeder reactor, the type most likely to produce competitively cheap atomic power, since it produces more atom fuel than it consumes. At AEC hearings, a group of top scientists, led by Professor Hans A. Bethe of Cornell, testified that the plant could be operated without undue risk to the public. City officials of Monroe said they welcomed the plant. AEC...
...Europe for a NATO meeting), and Presidential Science Adviser George Kistiakowsky. None was willing to accept all the Soviet points. Otherwise, the group was split. Herter and Kistiakowsky were for negotiating further on inspection guarantees, but talked of making some concessions to reach an agreement. AEC Chairman McCone called for a prompt resumption of testing until enforceable controls were assured. The Pentagon strongly seconds...
...freeze nuclear development at its current pioneering stage. It wo.uld stymie such peaceful nuclear pursuits as atom-powered space probes and massive use of atomic explosives to blast a new Alaskan harbor. It would make more difficult the already difficult job of keeping together skilled teams of scientists in AEC labs. It would stall the development of clean, small, highly mobile tactical weapons...