aut» requested the Commission be informed, if the question of insurance becomes a contingency in the Consumers proposal, Mr. Roddis - reported that the first contract negotiating meeting with Yankee Atomic Electrie Cempany was held February 23. Alter discussien of” the importance of setting a realistic maximum chemical processing cest figure in order te encourage industry participation in ‘the PDRP, Mr. Libby asked that he be provided with a technical analysis of these costs before the submission of a staff paper on the subject. At this point Mr. Strauss briefly left the meeting. | Mir. Roddis then commented on experiments in the aircraft . reactor program, With regard to the HTRE~-l he said that some fission product activity had been observed in the reactor's exhaust. Mr, Libby asked that he be previded with a copy of the technical report, when it is available, on fission products in the exhaust. Mr. Libby then pointed out that the findings ef this report would have a bearing on whether a third type of reactor needed ta be developed, since i: would affect the practicality of the direct cycle approach, The Commission discussed with Mr, Roddis other matters of interest in the reactor development program. 6, Civilian Application Mr, Pric~ repozted that at the recent meeting of the Advisory Committee of State Officials on health and safety matters, the group had requested that AEC recognize in its regulations she interest and responsibility of the states in some of these areas and also that AEC inform them of applications for projects in their states. Mr. Price then said that the construction permits for Consolidated Edison and CommopnwealthEdison wouldprobably be issued in a few weeks, and shat preliminary discussions had been held with A. E. Little Company, GeneralElectric and Textron concerning their plans for a three-core engineering test reactor in Massachusetts, - 167 -