Major Activities in the Atomic Energy Programs, January-December 1971
Washington, DC: United States Government Printing Office, 1972. Presumed first edition/first printing thus. Wraps. xi, [1], 249 pages. Includes: illustrations, diagrams, index. Footnotes. Cover has slight wear and soiling. Front cover slightly creased at top corner. Ink notation on t-p. The United States Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) was an agency of the United States government established after World War II by Congress to foster and control the peacetime development of atomic science and technology. President Harry S. Truman enacted the McMahon/Atomic Energy Act on August 1, 1946, transferring the control of atomic energy from military to civilian hands, effective from January 1, 1947. Public Law 585, 79th Congress. This shift gave the first members of the AEC complete control of the plants, laboratories, equipment, and personnel assembled during the war to produce the atomic bomb. During its initial establishment and subsequent operationalization, the AEC played a key role in the institutional development of Ecosystem ecology. Specifically, it provided crucial financial resources, allowing for ecological research to take place. Perhaps even more importantly, it enabled ecologists with a wide range of groundbreaking techniques for the completion of their research. In the late 1950s and early 1960s, the AEC also approved funding for numerous bio-environmental projects in the Arctic and near-Arctic. These projects were designed to examine the effects of nuclear energy upon the environment and were a part of the Commission s attempt at creating peaceful applications of atomic energy. Condition: Good.
Keywords: Atomic Energy, Nuclear Weapons, Reactor Licensing, Radioactive Wastes, National Defense, Plowshare Program, Space Nuclear, VELA, Breeder Reactors, Nuclear Materials, Uranium Enrichment, Environmental Quality, Nuclear Materials
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