Public Works for Water and Power Development and Atomic Energy Commission Appropriations for Fiscal Year 1974: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, United States Senate, Ninety-third Congress, First Session ...

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Page 3777 - ... (2) engage in the production of atomic bombs, atomic bomb parts, or other military weapons utilizing fissionable materials; except that such activities shall be carried on only to the extent that the express consent and direction of the President...
Page 3725 - State to make a certificate of the amount of such expenditure as he may think it advisable not to specify; and every such certificate shall be deemed a sufficient voucher for the sum therein expressed to have
Page 3732 - I will submit the remainder of the prepared testimony for the record. [The statement follows:] The foregoing are some of the highlights. The balance of the statement consists of brief summaries of each of the Commission's major programs for fiscal year 1974. NUCLEAR MATERIALS The nuclear materials program consists of our nuclear materials production activities, as well as our waste management and operational safety activities. Operating costs for these activities total $540.8 million In fiscal year...
Page 3912 - CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS In addition to construction project 74-1-h, at $1.65 million which was discussed in connection with our plutonium solid waste research and development program, the budget also requests $1 million for general plant projects at AEC radioactive solid waste burial ground sites to support improvements in handling and storage operations. Capital equipment funds of $0.9 million are requested to support the development work at laboratories and contractors on long-term storage of commercial...
Page 3777 - The President from time to time may direct the Commission (1) to deliver such quantities of special nuclear material or atomic weapons to the Department of Defense for such use as he deems necessary in the interest of national defense...
Page 4364 - The United States was in a rather complex position to recommend a submarine deal since we were not building any and the Soviets were building eight or nine a year, which isn't the most brilliant bargaining position I would recommend people to find themselves in.
Page 3741 - ... of these programs and succeeding operational missions will be continued. Construction funding of $5 million is requested for completion of the new Pu-238 fuel form fabrication facility at Savannah River, SC PHYSICAL RESEARCH PROGRAM Operating expenses of $250 million are requested for the "Physical Research" program in fiscal year 1974, an increase of $9.2 million over the 1973 level. Under this program, experimental and theoretical research In the physical sciences is conducted in support of...
Page 3747 - Commission and members of the Commission staff with me today. We will be glad to answer any questions you and other members of the committee may have.
Page 4088 - University of Chicago Chicago, Illinois Clark University Worcester, Massachusetts University of Colorado Boulder, Colorado Columbia University New York, New York Cornell University Ithaca, New York Duke University Durham, North Carolina Harvard University Cambridge, Massachusetts University of Illinois...
Page 4607 - Commission adopted a policy statement on standardization of nuclear powerplants in which it stated that its goal was "to encourage, support and give priority consideration to activities leading to greater standardization of nuclear powerplants in terms of their design, fabrication, construction, testing and operation.

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