Word: aec
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...safety study, financed by the AEC and conducted by a group of independent researchers led by MIT professor of nuclear engineering Norman C. Rasmussen, concluded that nuclear power plant accidents present a negligible risk to public health and safety...
...Atomic Energy Commission's study on reactor safety seriously underestimates the hazards of nuclear reactor accidents, the Cambridge-based Union of Concerned Scientists and the Sierra Club said in a joint report presented to the AEC on Friday...
...William A. Anders, 41, a former astronaut, who will take over what remains of the AEC (basically its safety and regulatory operations). He will succeed Dixy Lee Ray, 60, who has been the highest-ranking woman in the Administration. Ray will become Assistant Secretary of State for Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Matters-an office that was created in 1973 but never filled...
...alphabet soup. In 1920, Congress set up the Federal Power Commission (FPC) to watch over the burgeoning hydroelectric industry; in 1934, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to monitor the new radio industry; in 1938, the Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB) to police the airlanes; in 1946, the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC...
Last week the AEC sought to put the old report to rest forever by issuing WASH-1400. This new study, a 3,300-page, 14-volume document that cost $3 million and took 60 specialists two years to research and write, is called An Assessment of Accident Risks in U.S. Commercial Nuclear Power Plants. Like its predecessor, its argument is statistical. The probability of any conventional water-cooled reactor's having an accident in any given year that might kill 1,000 people, the researchers reckon, is about the same as that of a meteor's striking...