Atomic Energy Commission programs

Whereas new appHcations of lithium compounds were developed, commercial growth was slow. In 1953 worldwide sales of lithium products, expressed as lithium carbonate, were only ca 1000 metric tons (2). In 1954 the U.S. lithium industry underwent a sudden, very large expansion when the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission required large amounts of lithium hydroxide [1310-65-2] for its nuclear weapons program (see Nuclearreactors). Three domestic producers built 4500-t/yr plants to meet contract commitments with the U.S. government. When these government contracts ended in 1960, capacity exceeded demand and several operations were discontinued. 

Bottom 1 prototype HTGR operated successfully in all respects under the auspices of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission s Power Reactor Demonstration Program. However, its si2e (only 40 MW) was insufficient to justify continued commercial operation. 

The development of MORT was initiated by the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, and is described in Johnson (1980). MORT is a comprehensive analytical procedure that provides a disciplined method for detennining the causes and contributing factors of major accidents. It also serves as a tool to evaluate the quality of an existing safety program. 

Data courtesy of Dr C. A. Burtis, Molecular Anatomy Program, Oak Ridge National Laboratory of the former Atomic Energy Commission. 

Hardy, E. P. 1974. Depth Distribution of Global Fallout of 90Sr,, 37Cs and 239240Pu in Sandy Loam Soil. Fallout Program Quarterly Summary Report HASL-286. US Atomic Energy Commission, New York. 

Over the last twenty years, significant research and development has been performed concerning the ultimate disposal mechanism for radioactive waste. In 1957, the National Academy of Sciences recommended that deep beds of bedded salt be considered as potential locations for the disposal of radioactive waste materials. Following this recommendation a program of research and development was undertaken by the Atomic Energy Commission (AEG) to explore this approach. The high point of this program was the operation of Project Salt Vault in an abandoned salt mine in Lyons, Kansas. 

The authors acknowledge the assistance and cooperation of the many personnel of the Tennessee Valley Authority. This work was supported by the National Science Foundation RANN Environmental Aspects of Trace Contaminants Program under NSF Interagency Agreement AG-398 with the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. The Oak Ridge National Laboratory is operated by the Union Carbide Corp. for the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. 

In 1945 he became a professor ai the University of Chicago. In 1954. he was appointed to the 11 S. Atomic Energy Commission, and in 1959. he became Professor of Chemistry at University of California. Berkeley, a position lie held umil bis retirement in 197b. He also started the first Environmental Engineering program at UCLA in 1972. 

Comprehensive research programs sponsored by the U. S. Atomic Energy Commission and the Army in this country have been under way for the past 14 years. These studies were concerned with ascertaining the physical and chemical changes in foods preserved by ionizing energy, with particular emphasis upon wholesomeness, nutritional adequacy, acceptability, and absence of induced radioactivity in foods intended for consumption by humans. 

The food irradiation program in the United States is broad in scope and divided principally between the U. S. Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) and the U. S. Army, with the Army s concentrating on meat sterilization and the AEC s concentrating on fruits, vegetables, and fish pasteurization. Sterilization and pasteurization are differentiated by both the... 

LENNEMANN, W.L. (1967). United States Atomic Energy Commission interim radioactive waste burial program, page 261 in Disposal of Radioactive Waste into the Ground, STI/PUB/156 (International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna). 

An example of the operational environmental monitoring program presented in the Guide for Environmental Radiation Monitoring by the Japan Atomic Energy Commission is shown in Table 9.5. 

Most of our own work discussed in this review was supported by the U. S. Atomic Energy Commission. More recently the program has also benefited from some support from the Petroleum Research Fund of the American Chemical Society under a Type C Grant. One of us (N. E. S.) is grateful for Fellowship support under the N.D.E.A. 

We thank Daniel Billen for use of the Maxitron x-ray unit. This work was supported by Atomic Energy Commission Contract No. AT-(40-1) -3106 and by the University of Florida Nuclear Science Program. This is Document Number ORO-3106-23. 

B. Duane, D. Kottwitz, and R. E. Biggers, who supplied basic programs for resolution by computer. We also acknowledge the financial support of the Atomic Energy Commission Contract No. AT(45-1)-1830 for the development of experimental techniques and accumulation of certain experimental data, and Battelle Memorial Institute under AEC Use Permit AT(45-1)-1831, who supported the remainder of the effort. 

Hardy E. 1973. Fallout program quarterly summary report. Health and Safety Laboratory. HASL-274. U.S. Atomic Energy Commission Report. 

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