INTRODUCTION
At the invitation of Roger Ray, NVOO; Bill Forster, BAR;
TIT
and Bill
Robison,
LLL,
I
attended the Marshall
Islands Work-
shop at Lawrence Livermore Laboratory to take part in the
research discussions.
One the first day and part of the
second
each principal investigator presented an apstract of his
study.
This was followed by extensive in-depth discussions of selected
-segments of the overall program.
It is pertinent to note that this was the first time that
all concerned with this pro lram,
tives
from AES,
gators
Hawaii,
from BNL,
BER,
LLL,
and OBS;
i.e.,
NVOO;
the technical repressanta-
SAN;
and principal investi-
University of Washington,
University of
Bowling Green State University had met.
Since I was the only technical person present who was not
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closely associated with the program, 1t was agreed by Bill Burr,
Bill Forster,
and Roger Ray that my written perceptions of this
workshop would be useful.
I agreed to do this, but it should
be borne in mind that IT may have missed some of the finer points
in the technical and political discussions.
acting as a rapporteur for the workshop.
details were presented,
In no way was I
While many project
I will restrict my comments to four
major areas’ that I feel need ERDA senior management attention
PROGRAM ORGANIZATION AND STRUCTURE
It was apparent that there was an overall lack of direction
in this program with the result that AES has a number of projects
that do not necessarily share the same philosophy or objectives.
From the discussions the problem appears to exist mainiy at
HO,
particularly between OES and BER,
With BER.
with
and,
to a lesser degree,
The issues and program objectives are not clear
the result that there is no coherent program in place,
nor have the priorities been identified.
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