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...AEC Denies Secrecy...
WASHINGTON, March 24--The Atmoic Energy Commission denied vigorously today that it has bottled up any information on radioactive fallout. AEC Chairman John A. McCone called also for a "government-wide review" of information policy on the sometimes deadly aftermath of nuclear explosions. He suggested a meeting of all agencies concerned be held late...
Physicist Libby, who is planning to retire from the AEC in June after 4½ years of service, noted a new theory, put forward by Physicist E. A. Martell of the Air Force's Cambridge, Mass. research center, that radioactive debris from nuclear explosions near the poles drifts down to the earth much faster than fallout from explosions near the equator. If the theory is correct, strontium 90 and other harmful isotopes from Soviet tests in October will sprinkle the earth heavily during the next several months...
Second, the committee felt that the establishment and enforcement of regulations should not be put under the control of the same organization, whether the AEC or the HEW. They recommended that the power to establish standards should be vested in the long-standing National Committee on Radiation Protection...
...lesson is one which Congress might do well to apply to the entire AEC. Although the proposal that civilian radiation safety measures should be moved out of the Commission seems a minor one, it is actually a major step in the right direction. If adopted, the change would be a laudable step toward making the Atomic Energy Commission a responsible organization, rather than the present monopoly of fact-finding and decision-making power, which allows policy to determine what facts shall be considered instead of letting facts determine the policy...