Word: cea
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...University has been engaged in bitter negotiations with the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) for almost a year to determine who will control the operation of the $12 million Cambridge Electron Accelerator (CEA). Although Harvard and the AEC will probably sign a contract within two weeks for $5 million a year to operate the accelerator, neither the Faculty nor the Administration is pleased with the final contract provisions...
According to L. Gard Wiggins, administrative vice-President, "long hard negotiations have produced a contract that the University can live with." But Wiggins admits that the "independence of Faculty members involved with the CEA will be impaired...
Harvard did not expect to be threatened with government control when it started to build the accelerator, because all work done there is unclassified. The 1956 contract initiating construction of the project made no mention of any Federal control over the CEA, but several Faculty members expressed fear at the time that government involvement could mean government pressure...
...present controversy arose last spring when Harvard and AEC officials began negotiating the contract for the CEA's first year operating expenses. To the University's surprise, AEC negotiators presented a contract filled with objectionable requirements which the government labeled "matters of national policy." According to Wiggins, "the AEC was adamant in its demands at the beginning of the negotiations and insisted that no provision of the proposed contract could be changed...
Harvard absolutely refused to sign the contract, and Wiggins says that the University "probably would have refused to operate the accelerator if the government had not backed down." Although the AEC paid for the accelerator and thus technically owns it, Harvard owns the land on which the CEA stands. And only Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are actually empowered to operate the facility. In all probability, the main reason the AEC backed down from its original rigid demands is that it feared the spectacle of a $12 million electron accelerator standing idle in Cambridge...