Uranium Mining and the AEC: The Birth Pangs of a New Industry

1962 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
pp. 325-333
Author(s):  
Herbert H. Lang
Keyword(s):  
National Security ◽  
Financial Support ◽  
Atomic Energy Commission ◽  
Uranium Mining ◽  
Atomic Energy ◽  
New Industry

The interrelationship of national security, the Atomic Energy Commission, government financial support, and the birth pangs of a new and growing industry with unusual competitive characteristics are examined in this article.

“Black Film” and the Bomb

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Miklitsch
Keyword(s):  
Native Americans ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
National Security ◽  
Nuclear Family ◽  
Atomic Energy Commission ◽  
Atomic Energy ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Black Film ◽  
Atomic Espionage

In the prototypical ‘50s nuclear noir, the protagonist is an elite scientist—a nuclear physicist, to be precise—who’s either overtly opposed to or intimately aligned with the nation state and its institutional agencies. Although the FBI, as in the anticommunist noir, is the dominant investigative figure in these espionage films, it’s dramatically subordinated to other, more pressing issues and agencies such as treason, homosexuality, and the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) (in The Thief), Native Americans, national security, and the nuclear family (in The Atomic City), and bombshells, bikinis, and “B” movies (in Shack Out on 101). While City of Fear is not an atomic espionage film—call it a nuclear-epidemiological noir--the film’s representation of the LAPD and metropolitan Los Angeles as well as the rhetoric of disease and contamination, contagion and radioactivity, renders it a quintessential late ‘50s “B” noir.

Radiological safety and assessment of the performance of X-ray systems in veterinary facilities

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Economides ◽  
C.J. Hourdakis ◽  
C. Pafilis ◽  
G. Simantirakis ◽  
P. Tritakis ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Radiation Protection ◽  
Atomic Energy Commission ◽  
Atomic Energy ◽  
Regulatory Control ◽  
Continuous Training ◽  
X Ray ◽  
The Public ◽  
Radiological Safety ◽  
High Level

This paper concerns an analysis regarding the performance of X-ray equipment as well as the radiological safety in veterinary facilities. Data were collected from 380 X-ray veterinary facilities countrywide during the on-site regulatory inspections carried out by the Greek Atomic Energy Commission. The analysis of the results shows that the majority of the veterinary radiographic systems perform within the acceptable limits; moreover, the design and shielding of X-ray rooms as well as the applied procedures ensure a high level of radiological safety for the practitioners, operators and the members of the public. An issue that requires specific attention in the optimization process for the proper implementation of veterinary radiology practices in terms of radiological safety is the continuous training of the personnel. The above findings and the regulatory experience gained were valuable decision-making elements regarding the type of the regulatory control of veterinary radiology practices in the new radiation protection framework.

U. S. Atomic Energy Commission

AIBS Bulletin ◽  
1963 ◽  
Vol 13 (5) ◽  
pp. 29 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arnold Joseph
Keyword(s):  
Atomic Energy Commission ◽  
Atomic Energy

Study of Financing Policy on the Development of Strategic Emerging Material Industry

2014 ◽  
Vol 644-650 ◽  
pp. 4848-4851
Author(s):  
Cun Ping Liu ◽  
Yong Fu Yuan ◽  
Yan Xiong Yang ◽  
Sheng Guo
Keyword(s):  
Financial Support ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
Material Industry ◽  
Rapid Progress ◽  
Financing Policy ◽  
Emerging Industries ◽  
The Core ◽  
Life Cycle Theory ◽  
Modern Economy ◽  
New Industry

As the core of modern economy, finance plays a vital role in the development of strategic emerging industries. A rapid progress of these industries demands a well formed financial support system and a full play given to the role financial support. According to emerging industries life cycle theory, the characteristics of new industry and its law of development determine its funding requirement in various stages of development. This paper analyzes the characteristics of strategic emerging material industries and proposes financing policy in its different stage.

A Most Active Customer

2014 ◽  
Vol 44 (5) ◽  
pp. 470-502 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simone Turchetti
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Nuclear Power ◽  
Atomic Energy Commission ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Atomic Energy ◽  
Peace Treaty ◽  
Research Committee ◽  
Energy Field ◽  
Set Up ◽  
The U.S

After World War II had ended, Italy, not unlike other developed countries, held the ambition to establish an atomic energy program. The Peace Treaty of 1947 forbade its administration from seeking to acquire atomic weaponry, but in 1952 a national research committee was set up to explore the peaceful uses of atomic energy, in particular with regard to building nuclear reactors. One of the committee’s goals was to use nuclear power to make the country less reliant on foreign energy provisions. Yet, this paper reveals that the atomic energy project resulted in actually increasing Italy’s dependence on overseas assistance. I explain the reasons for this outcome by looking at the unfolding of U.S.–Italy relations and the offers of collaboration in the atomic energy field put forth by the U.S. State Department and the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. I argue that these offers undermined plans to shape the nuclear program as its Italian architects had envisioned, caused them to reconsider the goal of self-sufficiency in energy provisioning, and reconfigured the project to be amenable to the security and economic priorities of the U.S. administration. In this way, I conclude, the path for the Italian project to “de-develop” was set.

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