Word: aec
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Lament Geological Observatory wrote that most of carbon 14 is soaked up by the ocean, that Pauling's estimate of the increase of carbon 14 in the atmosphere was 50 times too high. Pauling's figure: 10%; the Columbia figure: .2%." TIME is wrong. See AEC Commissioner Libby's statements of March 27, 1958. Libby also says that the "carbon 14 rise might be as high as 3% per year as appears to have been observed...
...more needles than a tailor's pincushion. Moreover, his chief needler, New Mexico's Senator Clinton Anderson (TIME, May 19) is scheduled to resume the powerful chairmanship of the Joint Congressional Committee on Atomic Energy next year, and Strauss believes their feud would be detrimental to the AEC program. The President wants Strauss to stay on; Strauss has countered by trying to find a successor who is reasonably free of Washington entanglements, reasonably tough enough to stand the heat...
...described Strauss as Clint Anderson's Doctor Fell, concluded: "If Strauss retires voluntarily at the end of his current term, June 30, one of the principal reasons might well be his patriotic recognition that, in the Senate battle against his confirmation foreshadowed by Anderson's attitude, the AEC's work and policies might be seriously impeded...
FREE URANIUM MARKET, authorized by AEC, will permit producers to sell ore and concentrate to private U.S. and foreign firms for first time. Uranium men expect no immediate sales boom, but figure on big private market to develop over next few years...
...Cessation of nuclear weapons tests by all countries through a U.N.-monitored agreement to detect violations. Detection is now conceded to be technically possible by the AEC's Dr. Willard Libby. The degree of detectability, while not absolute, is such that risks of hidden explosions are certainly less than the risks of continuing along the road we now travel...