Act and arrangements are being made to place the operation of the reactor under license. In addition to applications involving construction of facilities, the following applications for possession of nuclear material were received. 1. Battelle Memorial Institute. For use in its anticipated research and development work with industry, the Institute has applied for a license to possess 3,000 grams of contained uranium 235 for use in preparing prototype fuel elements and subassemblies for in-pile testing and post irradiation inspection. 2. Nuclear Science and Engineering Corp. The corporation has applied for a license to possess 10 grams of enriched uranium oxide containing an uranium 235 concentration of up to 90 percent for use in fabricating flux monitors for the corporation's clients in connection with irradiation experiments. 3. Sylvania Electric Products, Inc. In April the company was granted a license to possess, fabricate and transfer 50 grams of uranium containing 10 percent uranium 235 for use in irradiation testing of material specimens. In June, at the company's request, the license was amended to double the quantity of material so that the company could fabricate an additional group of samples for irradiation testing. Industrial Information Passage of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 stimulated industry's already considerable interest in the possibilities of the atom for peaceful purposes. Before enactment of the 1954 amendments, the Commission's information-for-industry programs were necessarily limited to unclassified areas. While these information programs contributed to scientific and industrial progress in many fields, they did not provide, because of classification problems, the technical information essential to the sustained growth of a normal, competitive atomic energy industry. To start this new industry, the Commission, under the authority granted by the new Act, will operate two information-for-industry programs-one unclassified and another classified. As in the past, the AEC will continue, wherever possible to disseminate program-developed unclassified information through regular channels of communication. To assist in this function, the Commission has enlisted the advice and support of outstanding members of the industrial press and professional engineering societies. These men serve without compensation on the Advisory Committee on Industrial Information. To assure availability of unpublished reports covering technical data of particular usefulness to persons participating in the civilian applications program, about 950 AEC reports were selected from the Technical Information Services master file, printed in full-size copy, and placed on sale at the Office of Technical Services, U. S. Department of Commerce, Washington 25, D. C. These reports will bring the total of AEC reports on sale at OTS up to approximately 2,000. New reports as published will increase this number. In addition to reports on sale, full collections of unclassified AEC reports are maintained at AEC Industrial Information depositories. These are: The Atomic Industrial Forum in New York; Stanford Research Institute in Stanford, Calif.; John Crerar Library in Chicago; and Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta. Each of these depositories is making available to industry, at charges normally assessed for such services, reference and photocopy service of all AEC unclassified research and development reports as well as unclassified mechanical drawings of AEC-developed equipment. Each American business firm or industry will want eventually to conduct a self-evaluation in terms of all available information to determine its role in the development of the new atomic energy industry. To assist these firms the AEC has inaugurated a program for dissemination of classified information under the civilian applications program. Some 16,000 existing AEC classified reports will eventually be made available under this program. About 3,000 of the most useful of these reports will be printed in full-size copy; the remainder will be available as micro-cards or photostats. In addition to the report literature, special manuals evaluating and summarizing broad technical subject areas will be prepared and made available. Charges will be made for the use of the classified information materials. To effect necessary accounting and security controls and to assure that persons holding access permits or licenses have equal opportunity to learn about, to obtain and to evaluate Commission developed classified technical information, all distribution of classified reports, drawings, or other documents will be made by or through the Technical Information Service. In addition to the classified reports, handbooks, bibliographies, and periodicals to be made available under the classified program, the Commission will conduct periodic classified information briefings for access permit holders. Assistant General Manager for Adminis- J. L. KELEHAN. tration Assistant General Manager for Manu- DAVID F. SHAW, facturing. Assistant General Manager for Research A. TAMMARO. and Industrial Development. Controller____ General Counsel.... Secretary to Commission__ Chief, Office of Operations Analysis.. Director, Division of Civilian Application. Director, Division of Information Services. DON S. BURROWS. Dr. JOHN C. BUGHER. HAROLD L. PRICE. MORSE SALISBURY. 347661-55 Director, Division of Organization and Oscar S. SMITH. Director, Division of Production.. Director, Division of Research.. Nuclear Materials Accountability. Hanford (Wash.) Operations Office. Oak Ridge (Tenn.) Operations Office. San Francisco (Calif.) Operations Office. E. J. BLOCH. JESSE C. JOHNSON. T. H. JOHNSON. J. J. FLAHERTY. JAMES E. TRAVIS, Acting. S. R. SAPIRIE. Eniwetok (Albuquerque, N. Mex.) PAUL W. SPAIN. Field Office. Kansas City (Mo.) Field OfficeLas Vegas (Nev.) Field Office... Los Alamos (N. Mex.) Field Office. Rocky Flats (Colo.) Field Office. Savannah River (Augusta, Ga.) Operations Office. Dana (Terre Haute, Ind.) AreaSchenectady (N. Y.) Operations Office. JAMES C. STOWERS. CHARLES W. REILLY. |