would fail to concentrate enough push on the program,
Mr; Whitman -
observed that the best Oak Ridge people were not on the aircraft —
reactor program; it seemed to be grudginglycarried because of the
Laboratory's commitment. ' He did not feel that the program should take
priority over the homogeneous reactor development at Oak Ridge.
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Rabi and Mr. Murphree disagreed, pointing out that Oak Ridge's resporisi—
bility is relatively mci less in the power program than in the aircraft reactor program =~ perhaps a fifth vs a half.
Mr. Murphree felt
there should be two, or perhaps three, concurrent developments; the
art is still too fresh for the job to be left with a single organization.
The responsibilities assigned to GE could not be taken away at this
stage, but their effort might be peppedup.
Whitney combination is a logical one,
The Oak Ridge-Pratt and
However, Oak Ridge is probably
not going to push hard enough; perhaps the responsibility shovld be
given to Pratt and Whitney. A third logical combination.wouldinvolve
NDA, with responsibility for experimental work assigned to one of the
laboratories.
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Dr. von Neumann left during the above discussion, at 9:00 p,m.
After this discussion, Dr. Rabi brought up a matter concerning
Distri- © the distribution of the Minutes. The GeneralManager had asked whether
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they might be shown to Commission staff concemed with certain matters
memees
discussed by the Committee. Dr. Rabi had advised the General Manager —
not to do so, commenting that the Chairman of the Committee could not
approve such a step without authorization from the full Comnittes.
There was some discussion on this matter,
The standing restriction on
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