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...bomblet, packing the wallop of 1,700 tons of TNT, exploded 800 ft. underground on the AEC's Nevada proving grounds, opened up a new vista for the peaceful uses of atomic explosives (see SCIENCE). But the prospect of the bright atomic future stirred up less interest in Washington than a dispute over how far away an underground A-bomblet's shock wave can be detected. Reason: the ability to detect or conceal a test explosion has a vital bearing on the growing debate over whether the U.S. should accept Russia's proposal for a suspension...
...AEC said flatly that, in this case, "the maximum distance" was 250 miles. But the Disarmament Subcommittee, chaired by Minnesota's Democratic Senator Hubert Humphrey, found out from the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey that its seismographs picked up tremors as far away as Alaska. Prodded by the subcommittee, the AEC corrected itself, announced that the explosion was detected at College, Alaska, 2,300 miles from the blast site...
...majority of the committee favored the stockpile idea, and its vice chairman, New Mexico's Democratic Senator Clinton P. Anderson, drafted a bill to authorize stockpile buying. The plan is for AEC to pile up 7,250 tons of concentrate a year, expand mill capacity from 17,500 tons to 24,750 tons by the end of 1959 In a few years when AEC's contracts to buy from Canada and Africa expire, AEC could feed the concentrate into atomic plants in place of the foreign concentrate that now supplies half of U.S. needs. By 1966 the stockpile...
...AEC would not commit itself. Yet it was openly concerned about the plight of the miners. Its raw materials chief, Jesse C. Johnson, was re-examining the wisdom of the moratorium on mill construction, will report to the congressional committee in mid-March...
...tons on hand. Vitro shut down its drilling rigs, laid off half its mining force, planned to discharge the other half this month-unless something happened. Throughout New Mexico's Grants-Ambrosia Lake region, only twelve rigs were drilling last week v. more than 40 before AEC's freeze. The New Mexico State Land Office last month could lease only six of the 30 tracts it auctioned, and high bids reached the princely sum of $118. The real danger is that if too many prospectors give up, the U.S. may be squeezed for uranium supplies in the future...