Meeting with Pacific Gas and Electric Company Mr. Strauss said that representatives of the Pacific Gas and Llectric Company were mecting with Viv. Tarnmaro and iir, Fields :o discuss the possible construction of a reactor in the 100 megawat sange, e 10th Anniversary Statement Mr, Strauss said that or Deten:ber 31, 1955, the AEC will iave completed its 10th year of operation and that it would be ppropriate to issue a public statement reviewing the achievements £ AEC during the past decade, The cther Commissioners agreed hat this would be desirable and requested the Director of Inforaation Services and the Secretary to prepare such a statement, Letter from N\.URA President Mr, Vance reported that he had received a letter from r. John Williams, President of MURA, indicating that the MURA oard of Directors favors a cooperative arrangement with the rgonne National Laboratory and hopes to achieve as soon as ossible a mutually satisfactory plan for the development of a urge research accelerator, (See AEC 827/30.) He added that "r. Williams will be on sabbatical leave from January to April 157 and that during his absence Professor H, R. Crane of the niversity of \.ichigan, Department of Physics, will act as hairman of the MURA Executive Committee, Director for ANL Nr, Libby reported that during the previous week he had et with N.r, Frederick Seitz of the University of Illinois regarding ‘§ possible appointment as Director of ANL. Mr. Libby said that r, Seitz had seemed moderately interestcd in the position, but at he had not yet indicated whether he would accept it, - 782 -