Hearing dates: CONTENTS (Part 2 contains further testimony of the Atomic Energy Commission and Page Wednesday, February 20, 1957. 163 Thursday, February 21, 1957.. 245 Monday, February 25, 1957. 295 Tuesday, February 26, 1957. Wednesday, February 27, 1957. Thursday, February 28, 1957. Tuesday, March 5, 1957. Part 2__ 671 TESTIMONY OF ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION WITNESSES Murray, Thomas E., member Davis, W. Kenneth, Director, Division of Reactor Development.___. Libby, Dr. Willard F., member. Mitchell, William, General Counsel, statement submitted with respect to Price, Harold L., Director, Division of Civilian Application Strauss, Lewis L., Chairman, accompanied by members of the staff. II. Isotopes-First Peaceful Dividend from the United States 6, 295 6, 295 6, 295 300 6, 295 VIII. Progress in the nuclear reactor field__ IX. Regulation and licensing of the atomic energy industry- X. United States industry in International Atomic Corporation___ TESTIMONY OF INDUSTRIAL AND OTHER WITNESSES Ballou, Donald M., nuclear project officer, gas and electric department, 245 Biehl, Arthur T., Technical, director of Aerojet-General Corp--- Grahl, James L., speaking for Mr. Samuel B. Morris, American Public 285 Morris,, Samuel B., chairman, atomic energy committee, American Public Power Association (presented by James L. Grahl, assistant general Parsegian, V. Lawrence, chairman of engineering facilities and professor of 174 192 203 277 Weller, Gordon A., executive vice president, Uranium Institute of America. AEC action on power demonstration reactor proposals (table)_ 258 238 Britain's atomic power program (Whaley-Eaton service letter). Comparison of MTR fuel element costs from Government and private 310 Correspondence between the Joint Committee and AEC regarding study 263 386 297 320 284 257 Letter to representatives of industry, cooperatives, and labor, extending Mitchell, William, General Counsel, AEC, letter to Congressman Durham, 305 Press release by Joint Committee, January 22, 1957, extending general in- 4 Price, Melvin, letter to Chairman Strauss and reply from Commissioner Libby, regarding inability to obtain adequate insurance on atomic Radin, Alex, American Public Power Association, correspondence with Sporn, Philip, letter to Lewis L. Strauss, Chairman, AEC, regarding joint 290 27 Starr, Chauncey, vice president, North American Aviation, Inc., letter to Strauss, Lewis L., Chairman, AEC, letter to, from Chairman Durham, rela- tive to section 202 hearings.. Strauss, Lewis L., Chairman, AEC, letter to Congressman Durham, Chair- man, JCAE, regarding exchange of information with United Kingdom Sutherland, N. R., Pacific Gas & Electric Co., telegram to Chairman Ward, Frank R., of Babcock & Wilcox Co., letter to Congressman Dur- ham, Chairman JCAE, regarding application of thorium in nuclear Page 302 30 (For brief subject matter index to hearings, see part 2, p. 791. A more detailed DEVELOPMENT, GROWTH, AND STATE OF THE ATOMIC ENERGY INDUSTRY TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1957 CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES, JOINT COMMITTEE ON ATOMIC ENERGY, Washington, D. C. The committee met at 10 a. m., pursuant to notice, in the Old Supreme Court Chamber of the Capitol, Hon. Carl T. Durham (chairman of the joint committee) presiding. Present: Representatives Durham, Holifield, Price, Kilday, Dempsey, Cole, Van Zandt, Patterson, and Jenkins, and Senators Pastore, Gore, Jackson, Hickenlooper, Bricker, and Dworshak. Also present: James T. Ramey, executive director; George E. Brown, Jr.; George Norris, Jr.; and David R. Toll, of the committee staff. The CHAIRMAN. The Joint Committee will come to order. The purpose of these hearings as required by section 202 of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 is to receive "information concerning the development, growth, and state of the atomic energy industry.” It is with deep regret that we will not have Dr. von Neumann with us at these hearings. We on the joint committee admired and respected him for his qualities as a man as well as his scientific abilities and accomplishments. We will miss him very much. If there is no objection, I would like to insert in the record at this time, a statement I made on the floor of the House the other day paying our respects to him. (The statement referred to follows:) Mr. Speaker, it is with a deep sense of sorrow that I ask permission to address the House. On Friday, February 8, Dr. John von Neumann, Commissioner on the Atomic Energy Commission, died, after a long battle with cancer. His illness, however, did not keep him from attending important Commission meetings until close to the end. He often left the hospital in an ambulance to attend these meetings. Dr. von Neumann was a most unusual and brilliant genius. His specialty was the most difficult kind of mathematics. He was able to devise the mathematical approach for the solution of many of the problems of the day. This mathematical approach could be used to study economic behavior, social organization, and even strategy in war. Dr. von Neumann used this mathematical ability as the key to unlock a secret in the modern concept of physics through his contributions in the development of the quantum theory, a physical theory arrived at through the use of mathematics. But even this ability of mathematical analysis was not his only gift. For he saw the need for finding a new way of making mathematical computations and he applied his highly specialized mathematical skill to the more concrete task of creating an electronic computing machine which would perform the tedious mathematical work quickly and accurately. Because he was able to build the first electronic computer, this country was mathematically armed with a machine 1 |