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...such proposals founder on the shoals of one inescapable problem: with a totalitarian monolith, there can be no mutual trust. "Control systems are dependent upon an open society," says retiring AEC Chairman John McCone. "There can be no safe arrangement for the control of atomic or hydrogen weapons if countries such as the Soviet Union, its satellites and Red China insist upon secrecy...
...time, says AEC, was there any danger from escaping radiation. But just the same, added the official statement, it was "a most difficult feat...
...Reader Murray, former member of the AEC (1950-57) is special consultant to the Joint Congressional Committee on Atomic Energy...
Moreover, TVA has ideal customers. Big industry and such agencies as the AEC use power in a steady flow with no peaks to worry about. TVA customers are so grateful for what TVA refers to as its "Henry Ford system" (i.e., lots of electricity at low prices) that they make freer use of their irons, TV sets, frying pans, porch lights and furnaces (nearly half the 650,000 electrically heated homes in the U.S. are in TVA territory). While the average U.S. family used 3,707 kwh. of power last year at a cost...
Libby's laboratory career was interrupted by his service on the Atomic Energy Commission. Although he sturdily rebutted some of the less knowledgeable, most hair-raising claims about the horrors of atomic fallout, Libby did not enjoy his AEC job. He never saw an atomic explosion, and may never see one. Moreover, as he said last week of his AEC experience, "There was constant strain and tension there...