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good insurance of getting a lot out of the
shot unless there was
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also informed Gen, Fields of the Committee's
“position on the preinitdlation question, and that it would recommend a
preinitiation test~in Nevada.
(Appendix C, item 2)
Mr, Tomei was excused from the meeting at thi
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8 indicated that he felt the Li-6 question should be reexamined,
after the test results were in and understood, before committing the
remaining $100 million to the Li-6 production program.
At 10:35 a.m, Dr. Libby, Mr. Nichols and Dr. Smyth joined the meeting. |
Meeting
Mr. Campbell and Mr. Zuckert, who had entered a few minutes previously,
Commis remained,
All members of the Committee and the Secretary were present,
and Mr, Tomei was not present.
General
Manager
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Dr. Rabi reviewed the Committee's reactions to the various matters
which had come before it at this meeting.
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He first mentioned the proposal to have only unclassified research
Policy
Aliens
work at Brookhaven, and, in connection with this, the AEC's policy on
aliens as stated in AEC 89/3,
He referred to the difficulty of delays in
AEC action on specific requests regarding aliens, and said that this was
hard on the morale of laboratory management. Prompt negative action, if
necessary, would be better than six-month delays.
He asked if the policr
expressed in AEC 89/3 had been promulgated to the laboratories; Mr. Nichols
replied that a letter on the subject was going outto the field,
(Appendix C, item 3d)