U. S. Atomic Energy Commission

D. H. Slade, ed.. Meteorology and Atomic Pnergy 1968, U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, July 1968 available as TlD-24190, Cleatinghouse for Eederal Scientific and Technical Information National Bureau of Standards, U.S. Department of Commerce, Sptingfteld, Va. 

R. F. Smith, U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, F4jFA-SR-52S6 1960. 

I. G. Ryss, The Chemistry of Fluorine and Its Inorganic Compounds., State Publishing House for Scientific and Technical Literature, Moscow, 1956 Engl. transL by E. Haimson for the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission,HEC-/r-i5 27, Washington, D.C., 1960, p. 812. 

R. L. Matliews, Pxplosion and Detonation Pimits for an Oyygen-Djdrogen-Water l apor Sjstem, U.S. Atomic Energy Commission KAPL-M-6564, Cleariaghouse for Eedeial Scientific and Technical Information, Washington, D.C., 1966, 54 pp. 

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. 

A technique called probabiUstic safety assessment (PSA) has been developed to analy2e complex systems and to aid in assuring safe nuclear power plant operation. PSA, which had its origin in a project sponsored by the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, is a formali2ed identification of potential events and consequences lea ding to an estimate of risk of accident. Discovery of weaknesses in the plant allows for corrective action. 

G. M. Murphy, H. C. Urey, and I. Kirshenbaum, eds.. Commercial Production of Heavy Water, National Nuclear Enef Series, Div. Ill, Vol. 4E, U.S. Atomic Energy Commission Technical Information Service, Oak Ridge, Term., 1951 (declassified 1960). 

The results of design studies, calculations, and experiments for the reactor types selected for investigation in the post-Wodd War II period were collected in the multivolume proceedings of several international conferences at Geneva (24). The U.S. Atomic Energy Commission (AEG) sponsored the pubhcation of individual books between 1958 and 1964 describing the status of several reactor types (9,18,33—36). 

Comparative Risk-Cost-Benefit Study of Alternative Sources of Electrical Energy, Report WASH-1224, U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, Washington, D.C., Dec. 1974 Nucl Sa 17(2), 171 (1976). 

N. Bibler, Nucl Technol, 34 (Aug. 1977) L. Gray, Nucl Technol, 40 (Sept. 1978) R. Walser, U.S. Atomic Energy Commission Report, ARH-SA-69, 1970. 

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