JOINT COMMITTEE ON ATOMIC ENERGY EIGHTY-FIFTH CONGRESS SECOND SESSION ON REVIEW OF PROPOSALS UNDER POWER 26931 MARCH 12, 14, 22, AND MAY 23, 1958 Printed for the use of the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy UNITED STATES WASHINGTON: 1958 CONTENTS Anderson, Roland, patent counsel, Atomic Energy Commission. Burrows, Donald, Controller, Atomic Energy Commission... Clapp, W. J., president, Florida Power Corp.. Davis, W. K., Director, Division of Reactor Development, Atomic Menke, John R., president, Nuclear Development Corporation of America, accompanied by Eugene Zuckert, Theodore Miller, and Morris, D. M., Assistant Director, Division of Reactor Development, Sporn, Philip, president, American Gas & Electric Co. and American Thurmond. Hon. Strom, a United States Senator from the State of Vance, Harold S., Commissioner, Atomic Energy Commission... Additional information furnished for the record: AEC press release, April 16, 1958, relative to PPL/Westinghouse 40 135 58 41, 46 Chugach Electric Association, NDA proposed arrangement: Demonstration reactor, program justification data, arrangement 2 Durham, Hon. Carl T., letter to, dated February 7, 1958, from tion reactor. Strauss, Lewis L., letter to, dated March 26, 1958, from Hon. Durham, Hon. Carl T., letter to, dated February 28, 1958, from Ramey, James T., Executive Director, JCAE, letter to, dated Strauss, Hon. Lewis L., Chairman, AEC, letter to, dated May 7, 1958, from Joseph Campbell, Comptroller General, regarding Florida West Coast Nuclear Group, program justification data- Morris, Delmar, Division of Reactor Development, AEC, letter dated Busby, Jack K., telegram to, dated April 3, 1958, from Hon. Correspondence dated March 26 and April 8, 1958, between 167 5 133 127-132 Durham, Hon. Carl T., letter to, dated February 24, 1958, from Chairman Strauss, AEC, regarding proposal Durham, Hon. Carl T., letter to, dated April 11, 1958, from Chairman Strauss, AEC, enclosing memorandum dated April 3, 1958, regarding proposed arrangement.. Durham, Hon. Carl T., letter to, dated April 16, 1958, from Chairman Strauss, AEC, regarding proposed cooperative Holifield, Hon. Chet, letter to, dated April 10, 1958, from R. W. 101 94 Piqua, Ohio, project, program justification data, arrangement No. 152 Proposed bill for authorization of appropriations pursuant to section 261 of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended, and for other REVIEW OF PROPOSALS UNDER POWER WEDNESDAY, MARCH 12, 1958 CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES, SUBCOMMITTEE ON LEGISLATION, The subcommittee met, pursuant to notice, at 10 a. m., in room 457, Senate Office Building, Hon. Chet Holifield (chairman of the subcommittee) presiding. Present: Representatives Holifield, Price, and Hosmer; Senators Pastore and Hickenlooper. Also present: James T. Ramey, executive director; and David R. Toll, staff counsel, Joint Committee on Atomic Energy. Representative HOLIFIELD. The subcommittee will come to order. The Chair will make a very sad announcement before we start our hearings this morning. We have lost one of the members of our Joint Committee, Congressman Dempsey, who passed away yesterday. Of course, it is a matter of great sorrow, and all the members of the committee feel that they have lost a very valuable member of our committee, and a highly respected and honorable Member of Congress. The Subcommittee on Legislation of the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy is meeting this morning in public session in order to receive testimony on the proposed arrangement No. 58-111-4 between the Atomic Energy Commission and Nuclear Development Corporation of White Plains, N. Y. Under section 111b of Public Law 85-162 (AEC authorization act for the current fiscal year 1958), the committee is required before it enters into any proposed arrangement or amendment thereto under the power reactor demonstration program, to submit the basis of each such proposed arrangement to the Joint Committee for a period of 45 days. The Atomic Energy Commission currently has a contract with the Nuclear Development of America to perform initial research and development work on a sodium cooled, heavy water, pressure-tube-type reactor. This reactor, when determined to be feasible, is proposed to be constructed in cooperation with the Chugach Electric Association, near Chugach, Alaska. By letter dated February 7, 1958, the Commission advised the Joint Committee that it proposed to extend the existing contract to provide for further research and development and for preliminary design on the proposed reactor. 1 |