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AEC Group Reports

APR 01, 1951
Industrial data not being withheld
Physics Today

About a year and a half ago, an advisory committee made up of representatives of technical and engineering societies and the business press was formed to discover how much secret technical information still in the files of the Atomic Energy Commission might be of value to American industry. The first formal report of this committee’s working group has now been submitted to the AEC and states categorically that a search of classified patent files and a study of the technology of electromagnetic separation have revealed in both instances a satisfactory declassification of information. “In no case,” the report says, “have we uncovered any ‘huge amount’ of secret information of value to industry, although some specific cases of valuable information are noted in our reports.”

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