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...safety study, financed by the AEC and conducted by a group of independent researchers led by MIT professor of nuclear engineering Norman C. Rasmussen, concluded that nuclear power plant accidents present a negligible risk to public health and safety...
...Atomic Energy Commission's study on reactor safety seriously underestimates the hazards of nuclear reactor accidents, the Cambridge-based Union of Concerned Scientists and the Sierra Club said in a joint report presented to the AEC on Friday...
James J. MacKenzie, chairman of the Union of Concerned Scientists, yesterday attributed the two reports' different conclusions to the methods of safety analysis used in the AEC study...
...William A. Anders, 41, a former astronaut, who will take over what remains of the AEC (basically its safety and regulatory operations). He will succeed Dixy Lee Ray, 60, who has been the highest-ranking woman in the Administration. Ray will become Assistant Secretary of State for Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Matters-an office that was created in 1973 but never filled...
...alphabet soup. In 1920, Congress set up the Federal Power Commission (FPC) to watch over the burgeoning hydroelectric industry; in 1934, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to monitor the new radio industry; in 1938, the Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB) to police the airlanes; in 1946, the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC...