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Dr. Hafstad next turned to civilian power reactors and the "Five
Year Program",
He indicated that policy had emerged as a result of
discussions by the Commissioners at their Topnotch Meeting, and that .
actions had been taken to set policy.
encouraged,
Industrial participation is to be
The AEC expects to use government money to support research
and development projects in the National Laboratories,
The favored
method of subsidizing power reactors would be to construct plants with
government money} by-product plutonium might be purchased, although not
at premium prices.
Dr. Hafstad quoted at length from a Commission action
paper, which was not at the moment in the hands of the Committee.
Industrial study group contracts are being revised in the light of the
decisions taken.
At 11:50 a.m, Dr. Smyth entered.
Employing numerous charts as "visual aids", Dr. Hafstad next disFive Year cussed the Five Year Program. It was planned to spend large sums on the
Civil Power.
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Program
fast breeder approach. The distribution of cumulative costs by 1958 was
given as follows:
fast breeder, $80 million; homogeneous reactor,
$40 million; water reactors (excluding PWR), $20 million; sodimgraphite reactor, $15 million.
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