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...Aeronautics, would operate much like the Atomic Energy Commission, for the benefit of both civilian and military customers. The Defense Department's new Advanced Research Projects Agency would continue to handle space projects "peculiar to or primarily associated with military weapons systems or military operations." Just as AEC is watched over by a general advisory committee of top scientists, so the new NASA would be guided-but not run by-a new presidential advisory committee on space...
...Atomic Energy Commission, which last October put a freeze on new uranium mills until 1962, decided last week that a thaw is due. To Congress' Joint Committee on Atomic Energy. AEC Chairman Lewis L. Strauss announced a "limited'' step-up in AEC purchases of uranium concentrate from the 16 private mills now operating and the seven under construction. In addition. AEC said that four entirely new mills are needed. As Congress has pointed out. contracts for Canadian and African concentrates, which fill half of U.S. needs, will end in the early 1960s. In all, AEC wants...
Since the AEC's Chairman Lewis Strauss firmly opposes any test-suspension agreement on the ground that the Russians would cheat, and influential Nuclear Physicist Edward Teller supports Strauss by insisting that they technically could cheat, the 2,050-mile mistake caused a flurry of accusations that the AEC had been doing some cheating itself. Hubert Humphrey all but accused Strauss & Co. of deliberately twisting truth. Asked the Strauss-baiting Washington Post and Times Herald: "Has the AEC been bending the scientific facts to suit a preconceived position...
...written reply to Minnesota's Humphrey, Libby assured him that the Atomic Energy Commission's mistake was "entirely inadvertent." After questioning AEC officials, Capitol Hill's Joint Atomic Energy Committee issued a bipartisan verdict of acquittal. Declared North Carolina's Committee Chairman Carl Durham: AEC made an "honest error...
ATOMIC POWER may be speeded soon by AEC after hot congressional pressure to build more plants (TIME, Feb. 10). AEC would boost spending on civilian program from $124.3 million annually to about $200 million in next five years. Items: better research to cut high cost of uranium fuel, more Government money to build three new advanced reactors, higher price paid by AEC for byproduced plutonium to give industry healthier profit...