Word: permit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...P.R.D.C.'s fast breeder got one good arguing point when AEC's Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards warned last June: "There is insufficient information available to give assurance that the reactor can be operated at [Monroe] without public hazard." But AEC disagreed, gave P.R.D.C. a "provisional permit" to build last August, did not publish its advisory committee's warning until October. The decision was immediately criticized by Senator Clinton P. Anderson, who is joint Congressional atomic energy chief and a public-power enthusiast. Then the U.A.W., together with the International Union of Electrical Workers and the United...
...reactor experts. Their verdict, summarized by Professor Hans A. Bethe of Cornell University: "By the application of theoretical physics to what we now know, a fast-breeder reactor can be constructed and operated without undue risk to the public ... its operation is safe." Furthermore, AEC stressed that its Monroe permit is only for the construction of the plant, not its operation. Unless all the bugs are worked out of the fast breeder by the time the plant is finished in 1960, it will not be loaded with nuclear fuel...
...they prefer, volunteers between the ages of 18 1/2 and 25 can now take part in the "six month plan," which will permit them to spend six months in intensive training and the other 5 1/2 years in the ready reserve. This choice was formerly open only to 17-18 1/2 year olds. Army Secretary Wilbur M. Brucker said that the changes came as "new measures to improve combat readiness of the Army reserve components...
These two funds, in conjunction with the Friends of Harvard Squash and Tennis, enable the squash team to travel to the Nationals each year and permit the tennis team to make its annual spring tour to play southern colleges. It may also be used for special events, such as the Oxford-Cambridge vs. Yale-Harvard tennis meet, which is held in England every four years, or for individual needs which may arise from time to time...
...authors contend that total war between the Communist and non-Communist worlds, while possible, is too theoretical to permit reasonable speculations. They also dismiss the likelihood, except in the satellite countries, of the overthrow of modern totalitarian regimes by internal revolution...