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Westinghouse was also issued an amendment to a previously issued license, authorizing
‘the performance at Waltz Mill of a second series of critical experiments relating to the Yankee
power reactor.

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The Babcock & Wilcox Company was granted an amendment authorizing B&W to perform
critical experiments which employ boric acid in the moderator for the Consolidated Edison
Reactor.

General Dynamics Corporation was issued an amendedfacility Mcense to conduct additional

experiments and to modify the water f!lling system of its critical experiment facility located
at Torrey Pines Mesa, San Diego, California.

The Martin Company was issued an amended Hcense authorizing the company to conduct,
in addition to the Martin Power Reactor critical experiments, the Engineering Research and

Development Laboratory experiments (previously known as the U. S. Army Package Power
Reactor experiments).

Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Company applied for a license to construct and operate a
critical experiment facility at Greendale, Wisconsin, to perform experiments relating toa
power reactor which the applicant proposes to build for the Northern States Power Company.
Materials Licenses.

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Special nuclear material licenses issued during the quarter included allocations of 3,502
grams of plutonium, 18,192 grams of uranium 235, and 25 grams of uranium 233. Most of the
uranium 235, 17,564 grams, was allocated for use as reactor fuel; the remainder was for
research and development.
During the quarter 203 initial byproduct materia] Hicenses were issued. On June 30, there

were 5,649 licenses in effect, held by 3,691 licensees. New licensees during the quarter and
the number of licensees on June 30, are classified as follows:

New licensees

April~June 1958
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Medical institutions and physicians
Colleges and universities
Industrial companies
Federal and state laboratories

Foundations and institutions

Other

Total

Licensees on

June 30, 1958

75
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1,723
232
1,298
350

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203

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There were reported 917 shipments to non-Soviet bloc countries during the second

quarter. The Oak Ridge National Laboratory (the AEC’s primary distributor of radioisotopes)
made 3,855 shipments of radioisotopes; at June 30 ORNL had madea total of 112,084 shipments.
Four new applications for licenses to dispose of radioactive wastes at sea were received

during the quarter, indicating a growing interest by commercial firms in providing waste
disposal service.

A final order was issued on May 22, revoking the license of Radiation Products Company
of Dallas, Texas, for violations by the companyof its license and AEC regulations in trans—

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