Glossary of Organizations and Acronyms

Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards (referred to in the text as the Safeguards Committee )—Panel of outside experts established by the AEC in 1953 to provide an independent review of the safety aspects of nuclear reactors. Congress made it a statutory body in 1957. 

Advisory Committee of State Officials— Panel of representatives of twelve states established by the AEC in 1955 for consultation on issues related to federal-state relations in nuclear regulation. 

Advisory Committee on X-Ray and Radium Protection—Established in 1929 by professional societies and X-ray equipment manufacturers in the United States to provide information and recommendations on radiation protection. It was renamed the National Committee on Radiation Protection in 1946. 

Atomic Industrial Forum—Private organization founded in 1953 to promote industrial development of atomic energy. 

Atomic Power Development Associates (APDA)—A nonprofit technical consortium organized by the Detroit Edison Company to design and conduct research on a commercial fast-breeder reactor. 

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