Nucleonics Week

President Clinton to buy Nuclear Reactors from the United States. The entire press conference was organized by Laurie Cunnington, a very close friend of my family. This was the fourth time she has organized a press conference for our fora. The press conference was covered extensively in the October 30th and November 6lh issues of Nucleonics Week. There were articles in other papers and a report on National Public Radio (NPR). Because of its importance, I would like to include the white paper at this point. 

He even suggests that in some cases employers may wish to consider petitioning the National Labor Relations Board to remove a whole job classification from union control. It is clear why unions may choose to resist such threats. For example. Unicorn s Snodgrass noted that Unions will want to soften the impact of industry restructuring on their organizations (Schuler, 1999, pg. 64). Nucleonics Week (Barber, 1999) concludes that Labor issues are apt to intensify. ... 

Wayne Barber (1999), Labor Headaches Might Accompany Restructuring, Lawyer Warns, Nucleonics Week, January 28, pp. 6-7. 

Ray Silver (1999), AECB Staff Warns Hydro against Staff Cuts in Deregulated Market, Nucleonics Week, January 21, pp. 5-6. 

Richard Neustadt to Elmer Staats, 20 Dec. 1962, Box 5, AEC Reorganization Problems-R. Jones File, Series 60.18, Bureau of Budget Records Nucleonics Week, 31 Jan. 1963, p. 1 Harold Seidman, a senior staff member at the Budget Office, later confirmed the Joint Committee s view that abolition of the Commission was a direct threat to its powers Seidman, Policy, Position, and Power The Dynamics of Federal Organization, 2d ed. (New York Oxford University Press, 1975), pp. 61-63. 

Press briefing on civilian nuclear power, 21 Nov. 1962, note on press conference by J. Lyman, 28 Nov. 1962, Civilian Power Study and Report File, vol. 2, Haworth Office Files, AEC/DOE Nucleonics Week, 28 Nov. 1962, p. 3. 

Indeed, the controversy had begun long before the construction. The CEGB, who were the customer, had shown an obvious preference for the American Ught water reactor system. The decision to order an AGR caused considerable surprise, as shown by an article in the American publication Nucleonics Week of 22 April 1965 in which the comment is made that Rumors to the effect that UPC s AGR has done it ... have been met with some disbelief by U.S. water reactor interests in Britain and even by some AGR protagonists. These sentiments were echoed in an article in The Economist magazine. It begins ... 

In this context, it is ironic that at the time of the bid the American publication Nucleonics Week had described UPC s design as fully-worked-up . 

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