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ATCMIC ENERGY CCMMISSION
NOTES FOR THE 113th AEC-MLC_ CONFERENCE
Report by the Director of Military Application
There are two listed items on the Agenda for the AEC-MLC
Conference on Thursday, September 26,
1957.
The following
brief notes are furnished for the information of the Commission
as background for the conference.
The background notes on the
Food Irradiation Reactor were prepared by the Division of Reactor
Development.
I.
Approval of the Minutes of the 11éthn AEC-MLC Conference
The minutes of the 112th AEC-MLC Ccnference were approved
by the Commission at Meeting 1295 on July 24,
II. Food Irradiation Reactor
1957
(Suggested by MLC)
Brief Statement of Problem
1,
To clarify the status of the FIR project, and to agree
with the DOD on a single course of action to be taken to meet
the DOD requirement for a source of gamma radiation for use in the
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Army Ionizing Radiation Center,
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Following a DOD request on November 22, 1955, for a gamme.
facility for incorporation in a radiation processing plant, the
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Expected completion date:
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(later reported as September 1959 at joint meeting of May 2, 1957)
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