Word: aec
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...York and Wisconsin), Illinois by next month will be the only one with a Democratic Governor. But the Atomic Energy Commission insisted that the controlling factor was Weston's proximity to existing scientific centers. After all, the new atom smasher will be situated just 17 miles from the AEC's sprawling Argonne National Laboratory and less than an hour's drive from Chicago, where Enrico Fermi first split the atom in 1942. In a sense, the AEC's plum has fallen near the tree...
They were-and so was a lunch with 400 civic boosters. Their aim: to make Haverhill the site of a $375 million AEC atom-smashing accelerator and so gain 2,000 new jobs, 10,000 new residents and a $16 million-a-year payroll. Haverhill, one among 148 locations considered by AEC, is no longer in the running, but six other communities, from Sacramento, Calif., to Brookhaven, N.Y., are still battling for that plum with offers of free land, improved schools, and even tax-subsidized power expansion. Their skirmishing is part of an increasingly competitive struggle among states and cities...
...start next November, several months ahead of schedule. Its only serious problem, caused by the stubborn refusal of Woodside, a nearby suburb, to allow use of its land for SLAC's 200,000-volt power lines and towers, was resolved by Government intervention and esthetic power engineering. The AEC exercised the right of federal eminent domain and was fully supported by Congress and President Johnson. To soothe Woodsiders, power engineers designed and erected unobtrusive, green, one-legged towers, and strung power lines through the trees instead of hacking out the usual lane that is used during construction for maintenance...
Soon after the January 17 collision between a nuke-carrying B-52 and its KC-135 tanker over Spain, a desperate Defense Department turned for help to the Sandia Laboratory in Albuquerque, which conducts bomb-electronics research for the AEC. Sandia scientists promptly requested all available accident data from the task force. With other experts, they pored over interviews with surviving B-52 crew members and witnesses on the ground; they studied Air Force wind-velocity records and the ballistic characteristics and impact points of the three recovered H-bombs. By feeding complex equations into computers, they projected trajectories backward...
...budget Zachary projects is largely independent of Harvard money. Between 70 and 80 per cent of the Center's funds comes from federal grants: NSF, NASA, AEC, National institute of Health, and the Defense Department. When students or professors use the computers for projects not sponsored by Federal grants, their department pays the bill. This accounts for most of the rest of the Center's income. The University as a whole ordinarily gives no money, al this year Harvard granted for some specific projects...