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...weeks he commuted between the Flat and Las Vegas' luxurious Sands Hotel, while the weather changed often but never pleased the Atomic Energy Commission enough to explode the bomb. When it finally changed for the better last week, Leonard followed the AEC and civil-defense experts into the mock village to report the NATIONAL AFFAIRS story, Rehearsal for Disaster...
...succeeding Major General Kenneth D. Nichols, 47, who resigned the post he has held since 1953 to hang out his own shingle in Washington as a consulting engineer. Fields began his career in atomic energy in 1945 as an assistant to Major General Leslie Groves, moving to the AEC in 1947, where he became director of military application...
...nuclear materials. There will be no charge for the license and atomic plants producing electricity will come under the same regulatory agencies which now control other electric utilities. Manufacturers who do not build complete reactors, but only supply reactor components, will not have to be licensed. If the AEC must limit licenses or choose between competing applicants, the commission will give top priority to public power or cooperative agencies in high-cost power areas. Next will come private plants in high-cost areas followed by public or cooperative groups in lower-cost areas and finally all other public and private...
DIXON-YATES contract has run into another roadblock, this time from the Government's General Accounting Office. GAO's new boss, Comptroller General Joseph Campbell, who voted for the contract as a member of the AEC, has advised the commission to hold it up. He wants ironclad assurances from Ebasco Services Inc., slated to build the big steam plant at West Memphis, Ark., that construction will not cost more than the $104 million estimate. What worries Campbell is a previous Ebasco contract for a steam plant at Joppa, Ill. to supply the AEC. There costs turned...
BIGGEST URANIUM MINE in the U.S. is being developed by Anaconda Copper on the Laguna Indian reservation in New Mexico. AEC says that Anaconda's Jackpile Mine is the first multimillion-ton deposit to be found in the U.S. Reserves are estimated at 5,000,000 tons or more...