Development, Growth, and State of the Atomic Energy Industry: Hearings Before the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy, Congress of the United States, Eighty-sixth Congress, Second Session, on Development, Growth, and State of the Atomic Energy Industry, 1960, Pursuant to Section 202 of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, February 16, 17, 18, 19, 23, 24 and 25, 1960 |
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Admiral RICKOVER applications areas Atomic Energy Act Atomic Energy Commission atomic power believe boiling water boiling water reactors Chairman ANDERSON civilian power coal cobalt 60 commercial Commission's Committee on Atomic companies competitive construction contract contractor core development program economic Edison Electric engineering Euratom evaluation fabrication facilities field fission product FLOBERG fuel elements gas-cooled reactor going Government installations irradiation isotopes Joint Committee kilowatts licensing materials MCCONE megawatts ment MGCR million mills national laboratories nuclear power Oak Ridge operation patent percent plant plutonium potential power program power reactor powerplants present pressurized water pressurized water reactor private industry problem proposed prototype radiation radioisotopes RAMEY reactor concepts reactor experiment reactor program Representative DURHAM Representative HOLIFIELD Representative HOSMER Representative VAN ZANDT research and development scheduled Senator sodium-cooled statement superheat technical test reactor thorium tion United uranium utility water reactors
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