AEC Authorizing Legislation, Fiscal Year 1972: Hearings, Ninety-second Congress, First Session ...U.S. Government Printing Office, 1971 - 3311 pages |
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accelerator AEC's Apollo 12 Atomic Energy Commission budget Chairman PASTORE committee concern construction core cost CULLER demonstration electric engine environmental statement evaluation experimental experiments facility FIGURE fuel elements funds fusion Geological Survey going Hambleton heat transfer high-level wastes isotope kilowatts KLEIN liquid Lyons magnets material MCDANIEL ment million missions NASA National Laboratory NERVA neutrino nuclear power nuclear waste operation orbit particles plans plant plasma problem procedures Project Salt Vault proposed propulsion protons question R. L. Bradshaw radiation radioactive wastes RADIOISOTOPE THERMOELECTRIC reactor Representative ASPINALL Representative HOLIFIELD Representative HOSMER Representative PRICE Representative SKUBITZ reprocessing request retrieval safety salt beds scientific scientists Senator SHAW solid solidified space specific specific impulse storage studies surface tanks temperature thermal thermionic thermonuclear tion Tokamak transportation waste disposal waste management waste repository WILSON
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