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SUMMARY OF ACTIONS
REACTOR DEVELOPMENT AND DISTRIBUTION OF MATERIALS.
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Domestic Development of Atomic Power.
NSC 5507/2, paragraph 24:
“As part of an over-all
U. S. effort to develop the peaceful uses cf etomic
energy:
"Be
ceelerete the early development of atomic
power by the United States.”
The stated objective of the AHC's Civilian Power Program is to aghieve
economic nutiesr power production es early as possible, toth in the United
States and for other cooperating countries.
Broadly speaking, the power
program consists of three separate efforts:
The Experimental Power Reactor
Program undertaken at AEC inctellaticns, the Power Demonstration Reecter
Program underteken by private industry «ith AEC assistance in research jand
development, and programs cf individual utilities or groups of utilitig¢ 5
undertaken without any direct financial participstion by the Government
(s)
Exnerimenteal Power Reactor Program.
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This program
now consists cr ii projects concerned with the development,
design, and construction of ten cirferent types of reactors:
pressurized water, bollinc water, sodium graphite, fast breeder,
aqueous homogenecus, organic moderatec, liquid-metal fueled, gas,
cooled, molten plutcniun, and heavy water-natural uranium.
Threg
additionsi projects are being studied prior to undertaking reseay en
‘and deveior.ient.
With the excertion of the pressurized water red ctor,
whieh is a prototype plant, all projects are reactor experiments dee
Signed to provide basic information essential to evaluation and
developmen. of various types cf power plants.
NSC 5507/2 —
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