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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"Atomic Energy Commission (AEC)"”.
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Atomic testing and population genetics: the AEC and the classical/balance controversy, 1946-1957
The position of the United States Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) in the 1950s on the genetic hazards of fallout and radiation was a distortion of the views of geneticists from both sides of the classical/balance controversy, an intrascientific dispute among geneticists. In their attempt to …
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Westinghouse PWR : the rise and fall of a dominant design in the electric power industry
… was shaken by the introduction of a new type of energy source that pledged to be the most cost-efficient way of producing electricity. Counting on the promise of huge profits -attributed to large economies of scale- governments and utilities rushed to develop and construct nuclear power plants. …
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Nuisance to nemesis: nuclear fallout and intelligence as secrets, problems, and limitations on the arms race, 1940-1964
… in the early Cold War. Operated as the Atomic Energy Detection System by a covert Air Force unit known as AFOAT-1, the AEDS detected emissions and analyzed fallout from Soviet nuclear tests, as well as provided quantitative intelligence on the size of the Russian nuclear stockpile. …