Word: aec
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...report focused mainly on the period of 1947 to 1954, during which the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), the predecessor to the Energy Department, was rapidly expanding nuclear arms production amid deep suspicions about Soviet and other foreign work on nuclear bombs...
Records of an October, 1948 meeting of an AEC advisory committee indicated that enough was known then about releases of radiation at the Hanford plutonium plant near Richland, Washington, to raise concerns about workers' health. Yet it was decided at that meeting not to recommend closing Hanford temporarily while action was taken to stop the release of plutonium particles into...
...December 1948, the manager of the federal Oak Ridge weapons plant in Tennessee recommended to the AEC's advisory committee that workers quitting the weapons program be told if they had exceeded the government's own daily radiation exposure limits and that medical aid be given if a former worker developed a radiation-related illness, the Glenn report said...
...advisory panel rejected the recommendation, the report said. Instead it recommended to the AEC that "a terminating employee should be advised at the exit interview as to the care that the AEC utilizes in protecting each employee...
...financial liability for their actions. Records released last month show that when the operation began in 1953, the Atomic Energy Commission told the contractor, National Lead of Ohio, to dump radioactive refuse into pits dug in the ground, then standard practice. When rainwater caused the pits to overflow, the AEC stonewalled the contractor's suggestions for fixing the problem. In 1958 National Lead warned that liquid was leaking through concrete storage tanks that had cracked. The commission's expedient solution: don't get new tanks, just keep the liquid below the cracks. The flawed tanks are still...