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...Chairman Lewis L. Strauss as Commerce Secretary, has requested a hearing during the Senate Commerce Committee's pro forma session on the nomination. Kefauver, aiming to keep the home folks happy on a hot local issue, contends that Strauss violated federal law five years ago by leading the AEC into an ill-starred private-power contract that boomeranged into the Dixon-Yates controversy. Kefauver's hopes of heading off Senate approval of Strauss are slim: not even so staunch a Strauss foe as New Mexico's Clinton P. Anderson is much disturbed by his selection as Commerce...
...John McCone, who said that his proposals were attacked by Congressional Democrats before they had even heard them. But if such attacks are unfair, their foundation is at least understandable: despite his resignation, the image of ex-Commissioner Lewis Strauss still looms large in Congress's picture of the AEC...
...Commission made an unfortunate mark on two major fronts during Strauss's administration: it attempted to conceal the detection of a nuclear explosion so that its stand against banning tests would be stronger, and, so critics claimed, its stand on maximum "safe" radiation dosage was a reflection of AEC policy rather than the established facts. Both of these situations were a reflection of weaknesses in the commission's basic structure which desperately need correction...
First, the Committee felt that setting these standards was outside of the AEC's Authority as defined by the 1954 act which legalized civilian atomic power...
Major Change. The committee had pressed AEC to take a bigger part in developing second-generation prototype plants for atomic power, on the theory that private firms have neither the money nor the know-how to go ahead fast enough. AEC's new plan still leaves the job largely to private industry, but there is one major concession. AEC, which now contributes only toward research and fuel costs of privately built plants, would offer private industry up to 50% of the cost of building prototype reactors, plus more money for research...