_32— good insurance of getting a lot out of the shot unless there was ROBLESto AGEREEOSINana ar also informed Gen, Fields of the Committee's “position on the preinitdlation question, and that it would recommend a preinitiation test~in Nevada. (Appendix C, item 2) Mr, Tomei was excused from the meeting at thi eTege RENEE CRRRTENE SEES OS= celttorta SE 8 indicated that he felt the Li-6 question should be reexamined, after the test results were in and understood, before committing the remaining $100 million to the Li-6 production program. At 10:35 a.m, Dr. Libby, Mr. Nichols and Dr. Smyth joined the meeting. | Meeting Mr. Campbell and Mr. Zuckert, who had entered a few minutes previously, Commis remained, All members of the Committee and the Secretary were present, and Mr, Tomei was not present. General Manager 4 Dr. Rabi reviewed the Committee's reactions to the various matters which had come before it at this meeting. | He first mentioned the proposal to have only unclassified research Policy Aliens work at Brookhaven, and, in connection with this, the AEC's policy on aliens as stated in AEC 89/3, He referred to the difficulty of delays in AEC action on specific requests regarding aliens, and said that this was hard on the morale of laboratory management. Prompt negative action, if necessary, would be better than six-month delays. He asked if the policr expressed in AEC 89/3 had been promulgated to the laboratories; Mr. Nichols replied that a letter on the subject was going outto the field, (Appendix C, item 3d)

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