Considers. S. 1795 and companion H.R. 7300, to authorize AEC to require performance bonds for licensed nuclear waste disposal agents, and to increase quantities of uranium and plutonium which may be furnished to Euratom. S. 2816 and companion H.R. 11180, to extend AEC patent licensing authority, to extend indemnity coverage for reactors, and to authorize AEC to sell or lease property at Richland, Wash.
Path-breaking research into the Atomic Energy Commission's internal memorandum files supports this text's explanation of how and why America came to depend so heavily on its experts after World War II and why their authority and political clout declined in the 1970s.