Word: aec
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...prove that her employer, the Kerr-McGee Nuclear Corporation, was manufacturing defective plutonium fuel rods, but her car went out of control on a lonely stretch of Oklahoman highway and the documents never arrived. Only a few days earlier, she had been contaminated by eating and inhaling plutonium, which AEC investigators concluded was deliberately placed in her apartment...
...postwar U.S. nuclear power program; of a heart attack; in New York City. A onetime public utilities lawyer, Lilienthal sold electricity cheaper than competing private firms, made TVA the nation's biggest power producer within a decade after its 1933 creation, and was equally aggressive at the AEC. One Senator accused him of running the TVA like "a Führer," and opponents used the fact that his parents came from what is now Communist Czechoslovakia to cast doubt on his loyalty. When under fire, Lilienthal, a college boxer, liked to recall a bout he had with...