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struction are scheduled to be completed in 1954 and “1955. .‘Various.
other projects-in Pedetor development and. physicalresearch have o>,
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NUCLEAR POWER POLICY
9. The Commission has re-examined the policy quéstions ee Rene
implicit “in the draft legislation proposed last spring to encour-|.
age wider industrial participation in the ‘development. of economic. ~~
nuclear power,
In this review we have considered the points of
view revealed during the hearings condueted last ‘summer by the
Joint: Committee, as well as problems called to our attention by’
‘other: executive departments and agencies.
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for legislation has been submitted to the President and is being
studied by the Executive Branch.
10, Meanwhile, the two related studies requested by the Joint
Committee are being prépared.
One of these will be an unclassified:
report making an interim estimate of the-social, political, .
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economic, and Anternationa2 effects of using nuclear energy ‘for’ Pot
industrial purposes,
The other report will, review technological aes
accomplishments in reactor development, point out the ma jor problems