Word: aec
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Atomic Energy Commission, long a prime target of criticism by environmentalists, is changing. Traditionally secretive, the commission recently surprised its detractors by offering Antinuclear Crusader Ralph Nader access to all its reports on peaceful uses of the atom. New AEC policies have also dismayed the $20-billion-a-year nuclear power industry. The commission has ordered Consolidated Edison Co. to protect fish in the Hudson River by building a costly water-cooling system at a nuclear power plant near Peekskill, N. Y. In New Jersey, the AEC has banned construction of a long-planned nuclear plant because it would have...
...keeps its exact location a secret; she has been forced to move once because of county ordinances against trailers. Wherever she goes, her miniature poodle and huge, shaggy Scottish deerhound go too. They have welcomed, and startled, many a visitor to Ray's office in the AEC headquarters at Germantown...
...Ph.D. from Stanford, professorship at the University of Washington) hardly qualified her to set nuclear policy or equipped her to deal with the Byzantine ways of Capitol Hill politics. But she obviously learns fast. James Schlesinger (now Defense Secretary) strongly recommended her to succeed him when he left the AEC chairmanship to become CIA director last winter. Her greatest asset, he said, would be "balancing the demands of energy and environment." President Nixon, who had been looking for women to fill high federal posts, agreed; in February he appointed Ray to head the five-man commission...
...Many people were misled by Dixy Lee's life-style and expected her to be a character while others actually ran the show," a friend says. "Instead, she took command." Before Ray's reign, the AEC was notably reluctant to discuss the environmental impact of many key policies-except in court. To help change that situation, Ray outmaneuvered two of the agency's most effective and powerful figures, James Ramey and Milton Shaw. Ramey, an AEC commissioner since 1962, was the liaison man with Congress. Shaw, director of reactor development and technology, was the supertechnocrat...
...urged the creation of a federal Energy Research and Development Administration. Its main asset would be the AEC's technical expertise and facilities. Beyond that, the agency would collect in one place the federal research efforts now scattered among the AEC (nuclear power), the Interior Department (coal) and the Bureau of Mines (coal, oil and gas), thus streamlining the federal bureaucracy...