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PART V_- SEPARATE VIEWS OF THOMAS EB, MURRAY, COMMISSION
U. S, ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION
In my view progress in the development of industrial atomic power
is not adequate to carry out the directive NSC 5507/2 as it pertaing to
this aspect of the peaceful uses of atomic energy.
That is, progregs
has not been sufficient to insure fulfillment of that stated program
objective of NSC 5507/2 which is:
"To maintain United States leadership in the development of
the peaceful uses of atomic energy, particularly atomic power. |]
I expressed similar views in connection with a Commission report
made last year to the National Security Council.
Im a separate letter to
Mr. Dillon Anderson dated August 3, 1956, I stated my belief:
(a) "That, if it is important to meet world needs for atomic
power, then the Government must take the responsibility
for the construction of large size power reactors in the
years immediately ahead", and
(bo) "That the only industrial /atomic/ electric power produced
in large quantities by 1960 will be that from the Shippingport
reactor,"
It continues to be apparent to me, as it has been during the almost
two years this directive has been in effect, that the Commission's resent
policies and programs are not adequate to carry out the intent of
Paragraph 24(a):
"Accelerate the early development of atomic power by the United
States,"
And Paragraph 25:
“Carry forward the development of the peaceful uses of atomic Toe
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private financing wherever possible."
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