Dr. Johnson, continuing his report, said that the long delayed
Executive —
Order
on.
executive order on research had been released on March 17 by the White
House, Its language was generally satisfactory to the AEC.
The National
Research Science Foundation:was tobe encouraged to increase its level of operations; and other agencies were to be encouraged to support researches
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allied to their particular interests.
The next subject was foreign travel. ‘Dr. Johnson said the flood of .
Foreign
Travel
requests this year posed the question of what the policy should be, -
,
Present practice is to allow up to one foreign trip per year from each
major division of the laboratories, or per million dollars in off-site
research contracts.
Dr. Johnson proposed to endorse requests {each
ultimately requires the General Manager's approval) on the basis of:
profit to the research program but not on the basis of promoting good
ntists, etc,
will, or of rewarding distinguished scie
all the expenses or none.
He favored paying
Some others present did not see why it was”
necessary to be so rigid in the reimbursement aspect of the travel policy, and felt that provision to pay part of the expenses would have many
advantages.
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The matter was not discussed further.
Dr, Johnson next reviewed progress in the controlled thermonuclear
Con=
trolled
reaction program.
The main technical development had been at Livermore,
Thermo~
The magnetic mirror had been excited and protons injected,
Keac~
of the plasma, 3 milliseconds, indicated there were no serious plasma
nuclear
tions
oscillations.
hopeful.
No neutrons have been observedyet.
The duty cycle will be increased.
machine had been almost completed,
flexible stainless steel tube.
The lifetime
The situation is
At Princeton, Spitzer's
A discharge had been achieved in the