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AEC research program and policy

AUG 01, 1954
Remarks before the Southeastern Division of the American Physical Society in Knoxville, Tennessee, on April 1, 1954.
T. H. Johnson

More than any other government agency, the AEC relies upon other people to do its work. The AEC has only 6000 employees, almost none of whom engage in technical work. Their function is to arrange for, and coordinate, the work of more than 80 000 employees of operating contractors, not to mention the construction. The atomic energy job is being done by American industry and American science—both operating in more or less their normal patterns.

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T. H. Johnson, Atomic Energy Commission.

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