AEC Authorizing Legislation: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Legislation. 84th- Congress, Part 3U.S. Government Printing Office, 1971 |
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Page 1780 - ... ministry officials made the decision to keep the dam closed. The rains indeed stopped, the dam held, saving both the water supply and the towns. WATCH EVERY MAJOR STORM These are but a few examples; since 1966 US weather satellites have watched every major storm threatening the Nation. In 1969 alone, 12 Atlantic hurricanes, 10 eastern Pacific hurricanes, and 17 western Pacific typhoons were identified and tracked by satellites. We now have the first atlas of Pacific cloud and weather patterns,...
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Page 1307 - This scientifically detailed study has become the standard reference for those writing on the subject. In the course of official hearings in 1959 on the biologic and environmental effects of nuclear war, the Committee hypothesized an enemy attack on the United States totaling...
Page 1481 - ... days after receipt (transfer of physical custody) at the Federal repository. All of these high-level radioactive wastes shall be transferred to a Federal repository no later than 10 years following separation of fission products from the irradiated fuel.
Page 1483 - Dredged material" means any material excavated or dredged from the navigable waters of the United States. (j) "High-level radioactive waste" means the aqueous waste resulting from the operation of the first cycle solvent extraction system, or equivalent, and the concentrated waste from subsequent extraction cycles, or equivalent, in a facility for reprocessing irradiated reactor fuels, or irradiated fuel from nuclear power reactors. (k) "Transport
Page 1316 - The use of bedded salt for the disposal of radioactive wastes is satisfactory. In addition, it is the safest choice now available, provided the wastes are in an appropriate form and the salt beds meet the necessary design and geological criteria.
Page 1481 - Kans., repository will provide the most productive and timely means of demonstrating that such repositories can be operated without endangering the health and safety of the public.
Page 1725 - There cannot be a greater mistake, than that of looking superciliously upon practical applications of science. The life and soul of science is its practical application, and just as the great advances in mathematics have been made through the desire of discovering the solution of problems which were of a highly practical kind in mathematical science; so in physical science many of the greatest advances that have been made, from the beginning of the world...
Page 1242 - The US Atomic Energy Commission and the State Committee of the USSR for the Utilization of Atomic Energy...