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Last week the AEC's Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory announced a major step toward direct conversion: an experimental "plasma thermocouple" no bigger than a can of frozen orange juice. Placed inside the core of a research reactor, the device produced 40 watts of electricity -enough to light a household light bulb...
...signers, David Riesman '31, Henry Ford II Professor of Social Sciences, said he believed the members of the AEC are "patriotic men. They feel that tension between the United States and Russia must be kept up in order to maintain morale in the armed forces and places like Los Alamos," he continued, "and they have turned to mendacious activities in order to maintain this tension...
...administration. Exactly which government body should guard the country against fall-out has never been precisely defined, but up to the present time, the Atomic Energy Commission has assumed that responsibility. Recently however, the Public Health Service declared that logically such control should come under its own jurisdiction. The AEC, not caring to relinquish any part of its functions, accused the Health Service of a power grab, and decided to sit tight...
...this point the administration, sensing the immanence of an awkward and totally absurd feud, established the special committee to straighten out the situation and to set up a formal delineation of undefined matters concerning radiation. The necessity for clarification is especially pressing due to a report by AEC scientists that radiation in the atmosphere has doubled following the latest Russian atomic tests, and that radioactive material from the latest type of atomic weapons returns to the atmosphere much sooner than the material from previous bombs...
...President's committee consists of AEC director John A. McCone, Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare Arthur S. Fleming, and Maurice S. Stans, director of the Budget Bureau. Stans is the chairman, and apparently the final decisions rest with him, in order that probable collision between the other two might be mediated...