Word: aec
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...small amount of solvent exploded and blew open the door of a processing cell at the AEC's Oak Ridge laboratory. About one-fiftieth of an ounce of plutonium was scattered into the air. Last week the AEC reported on what it took to tidy up this minor atomic mishap...
...major role in perfecting the H-bomb. Teller, in a series of appearances since 1955 on San Francisco's prizewinning ETV Station KQED, has proved a master at lighting up the dark corners of physics for laymen. Although on leave from the university (he is boss of the AEC-University of California's Radiation Laboratory at Livermore), he volunteered to teach Berkeley's one-semester course because "it will not be a physics class but a physics-appreciation course -an appreciation of what physics is about, not a practical knowledge. When you teach music appreciation...
ATOMIC REACTOR for Puerto Rico, first in the Caribbean, will be built by AEC and used to train Latin American scientists. The 16,300-kw. boiling-water plant, costing $11 million, is scheduled to start operating near Rincón in three years...
Leslie Silverman, professor of Engineering and Environmental Hygiene, has been appointed chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission's advisory committee on reactor safeguards, an AEC spokesman announced recently. Silverman is director of the radiological hygiene program of the School of Public Health...
...test moratorium ran out with the old year. But he postponed into 1960 his decision on what the basic trend of U.S. nuclear policy ought to be -and on this broader decision his advisers were still divided. On the one hand, the Pentagon's civilian and military leaders, AEC Chairman McCone and most Senators on Congress' Joint Committee on Atomic Energy now argue specifically that the moratorium has dangerously slowed important U.S. weapons development-especially the development of tactical weapons, second-generation missile warheads and the "clean" neutron bomb (TIME, Nov. 30). Since there...