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DEVELOPMENT OF
ATOMIC, ENERGY
IN US.
WASHINGTON, Sunday.
A Congressional report disclosed
yesterday that eight different
plans and believed 'feasible; ' were
under discus'ston.fpr, putting atomic
energy to worklor.'industry.
The report made no effort to
guess ;\V[hen the first industrial
iuuhiie'p'öwer' plant ""would be In
liberation. <,<? '''a,' "
'"'It did state, however, that"
atomic power would propel an
iviiverlcah' submarine' by 1954 and
possibly an American aircraft.
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Thegicv.and. other,.estimatqs,.,by
service 'either "'tô'p"'nucVear physicists
arid Industrial 'experts,'
appeared last night in a 400-page
report of the Joint Congressional
Çommlt'tcé'ori'Atomic Energy.
':. /¡Thè.»C,omrnlttee made no effort
In the report to arrive at conclusions
or make recommenda-
tions:' " '"
J' if merely compiled, scores,, of
statements, reports,: testimony,
j speeches and papers, in connec-
tion! with nuclear fission,'; ".''.".;;.','.'
V Entitled Atomic Power arid
.Prlvato-^'Enterprl-se." the report
was prepared in advance of Con-;
gress Iona' heariii'iVs'!nè'xt year': on
Industrial participation in atomic
energy." ."'"
The report disclosed that the
CASES., in addition to studying
atomic 'power proposals by private
interpose, 'was considering
Government, construction of
atomic power package plants in
remote. areas of the United
States'or'other countries.
The report said the United
States already was building atom
engines for submarines, was in
the middle of a "major effort"
to build a nuclear power? plant
for 'aircraft,' and was hard at
work on development of another
for aircraft carriers. . '
The report'lisfiçri these military
uses for the atom:-'
Atomic powered naval vessels
and cargo ships capable of cruise
ring for their entire life spans
without refuelling; . ;:.
i Atomic powered aircraft Gap
l able of making multiple feints
preceding' an, actual military
[attack; and
I 'Atomic-powered floating power
? stations capable of meeting the
power.. requirements of bombed
out ports and cities during war
: l time and fllsastèV-strickeri areas'
in peacetime, ; T." '",-..
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