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GENERAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE
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U. S&S. ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION
Washington 25, D. C, -
June 3, 1954 .
Mr. Lewis L. Strauss, Chairman
U. S. Atomic Energy Commission
Washington 25, D. C,
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Dear Mr. Strauss:
Herewith is the summary report ofthe 40th Meeting of the
General Advisory Committee, held in Washington on May a028,
and 29, 1954,
All members with the exception of Dr. Libby were in attendance,
Dr, Libby was unavoidably absent since he was out of the country.
We wish to thank the Commission and its staff for their coopera-
tion in supplying background information for the subjects to be
considered,
We particularly wish to thank the Division of Military
Application for providing for the presence of Drs, Graves, Mark, and
York, who greatly aided our deliberations in the presentation of the
results of the CASTLE tests, and the tentative programs of the
weapons laboratories for the future. Our discussions were greatly
helped by the attendance of Gen, Luedecke, Dr. Scoville, Col. Kaesser,
and Capt. Maynard of the AFSWP, and Dr. Machta of the Weather Bureau,
who gave us much valuable information in regard to radioactive fallout under various conditions of weather and height of burst.
Herewith are our recommendationar
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Materials Testing Accelerator Program. ‘In our discussions with.
the Divisionof Reactor Development, and from a very able presentation
of Mr. W. K. Davis, we came to the conclusion that: there exists no
demand for MTA from either the Production Division or the Reactor
Development Division, Neither of these Divisions foresees MTA as an
important and economical tool for increasing the amounts of fissionable material,
This circumstance made us consider the MTA program as a program
for the Research Division, The Committee was of the opinion that on
this basis it could not recommend that we go forward with the MTA program as a part of ourresearch efforts.