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Nuclear Industry

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1964 — Volume 11

Index for 1964
January — Number 1 •: The First Big Production Cutback — The Ravenswood Announcement — Mr Johnson Needed the Money — The Nuclear Year 1963 — AEC Accepts SEFOR Proposal — No New Ship Reactor
February — Number 2 •: Reorientation Toward What? — Bodega Bay Site Studies — A–C Becomes a Fuel Fabricator — First Toll Enrichment Deal — Rickover’s Reactor Again — The Spectral Shift Invitation
March — Number 3 •: The Jersey Central Project — Hearings Without Pyrotechnics — An Anti–Nuclear Power Program — Westinghouse Wins UEM Contract — The Hanford Isotopes Plant — Something of Value
April — Number 4 •: Cheap Water, Cheap Power? — A Setback for LADWP — Nuclear Plant for Long Island — First German–Built BWR — Heavy Water from Nova Scotia — The JCAE Wins Its Point
May — Number 5 •: The Joint Committee Disposes — Britain Considers US Reactors — A New Approach to Private Ownership — Big New Plants for California? — The Ghost Ship — SNAP–9A Fails to Orbit
June — Number 6 •: Coping With Private Ownership Again — Radiation Processors Look Ahead — A French Sales Offensive — Turning Point for the Nuclear Rocket? — A Deafening Silence — Two New England Prospects
July — Number 7 •: The Step Beyond Private Ownership — A Review of the June Hearings : A Final Solution in View — An Interim Arrangement — Desalination Talks With Two Nations — The Demise of Pluto
August — Number 8 •: Published with dual covers, as the last issue under the title Memo to Members and the first under the title Nuclear Industry; Geneva Conference Issue : Special Reports on Nuclear Power in Seven Nations — A Judgement Reconsidered — The Private Ownership Law — A National Desalination Program
September — Number 9 •: The Third Geneva Conference in Retrospect — Advanced Converters in Competition — A Forum Study of Toll Enrichment Policies — What Uranium Requirements in Early 1970s?
October — Number 10 •: The Advanced Converter Program Redefined — General Electric Publishes a Nuclear Price List — France Sells its First Plant Abroad — New Diversification Steps at Hanford
November — Number 11 •: A Postulated ’Quake Demolishes Bodega Bay — The National Water Desalting Program — Toward a Nuclear Merchant Fleet
December — Number 12 •: An End to a Long Drought in Nuclear Reactor Orders — A Precedent–Setting Decision in the Jersey Central Case — The Forum Conference Considers the Desalting Program

1965 — Volume 12

Index for 1965
January — Number 1 •: A Franco–German Project on the Horizon — The AEC Staff Writes a Petition — Fourth Nuclear Plant for New England?
February — Number 2 •: Commonwealth Edison Orders Dresden Number Two — The AEC’s Budget for the New Fiscal Year — One Hundred Million Pounds of Uranium
March — Number 3 •: The Advanced Converter Program Runs into Trouble — The Trend Toward Nuclear Power — Frank Pittman Speaks Out on Siting and Safety
April — Number 4 •: Hearings, Boards and the Licensing Process — Changes in the Chemical Reprocessing Picture — Clearing the Way to Build the Advanced Converters
May — Number 5 •: A Marriage is Made, A Contractor is Chosen — Announcements, Reports and Rumors About Utilities’ Nuclear Plans — A Boiling Light Water CANDU Reactor for Canada
June — Number 6 •: Preparing for the Price–Anderson Hearings — A Special Report, The New Face of Hanford — Toward Policy Decisions on Cobalt–60
July — Number 7 •: The Industry Testifies for Price–Anderson — Operating Experience with the Italian Reactors — AEC’s Maritime Reactor R&D Program — Swedish Utilities Order a BWR
August — Number 8 •: A Reformed Licensing System is Proposed — The CEGB Explains the Dungeness B Decision — Boston Edison Signs a Letter of Intent
September — Number 9 •: A Merchant Ship Construction Program? — Nuclear Power for Space : Principles and Policies — One for New England, One for New York
October — Number 10 •: The AEC Publishes its Proposed Toll Enrichment Criteria — The Malibu Hearings Go On and On… — General Electric Will Build the JAPC Reactor — The US–Mexican Nuclear Desalting Study
November — Number 11 •: Con Edison Nears a Decision on Indian Point II — Radiation, Isotopes and AEC Policy — European Utilities in the Market for Uranium
December — Number 12 •: The Impact of the New Utility Commitments — Florida Power & Light Orders Turkey Point 3 — Barter Agreements : The Exception, Not the Rule? — A New Role for a National Laboratory

1966 — Volume 13

Index for 1966
January — Number 1 •: An Even Better Nuclear Power Year in 1966? — No Seed–Blanket Reactor for California — Another Step Toward Toll Enrichment
February — Number 2 •: Four Plants Ordered in Two Weeks — The AEC’s Budget for the Next Fiscal Year — The Fast Breeder Progam Faces a Long Road
March — Number 3 •: Erroneously labeled no. 2 on front cover; What Market for Commercial Plutonium? — A Tennessee Valley Authority Decision in June — The AEC Slams the Door on Barter
April — Number 4 •: A Post Mortem on the Barter Program — What’s Missing From The Breeder Development Plan? — Quad Cities : Number 6, Northern States : Number 7
May — Number 5 •: The Joint Committee’s Cautious Report — Two Big Plants on the Delaware — A Thousand Kilograms of Plutonium — The Thermal Pollution Issue in Congress
June — Number 6: Persuading Mr McNamara; In Industry : Two Utility Assessments of Coal–Nuclear Competition — Operating the NS Savannah in Commercial Service — Westinghouse Places Large U₃O₈ Order with Anaconda — Monticello Plant’s Vessel May Be Fabricated On–Site — Hearing Board Closes Record Of LADWP Licensing Case — New Long Delays Likely For Dairyland Reactor — CPPD Decides Not to Buy Hallam Reactor from AEC; In Other Nations : Tone of Optimism Dominates Fast Breeder, HTGR Meetings — Franco–Spanish Agreement Now in Sight, JEN Reports — Canada Confident About Outcome of Imatran Bidding — Elves or Concentrates — Canadians Foresee Vast World Need for Heavy Water — Frankfurt, Preussen Elektra May Buy Nuclear Plants — Barter Contract for VEW Fuel Signed by AEC, Supply Agency — Hitachi, Toshiba and GE Plan Fuel Plant in Japan — Bids on Ship Reactor Due from Mitsubishi, B&W; In Government : Holifield Outlines Views On Major Policy Questions — AEC Plans No Base Load Offer for New Reprocessing Plant; Where They Stand; SNAP Isotope–Fueled Generators in Operation and Under Development
July — Number 7 •: TVA, Duke, VEPCO, Nebraska… — Cities Service Offers to Buy United Nuclear — Revised Enrichment Criteria and Contracts
August — Number 8 •: The Joint Committee Hearings : Toll Enrichment and its Implications — Three More Orders for Nuclear Plants — Consensus on Price–Anderson Changes
September — Number 9 •: The Toll Enrichment Hearings : Industry Views on the Fuel Cycle — What Course for the Nuclear Rocket? — GE’s Illinois Reprocessing Plant
October — Number 10 •: GE, Westinghouse Fill 1970 Order Books — The Implications of the Fermi Shutdown — Recordkeeping Encounters a Roadblock
November — Number 11: Atomforum ’66 : New Opportunities, New Issues; In Industry : Nuclear Power Plant Orders Go to Three Manufacturers — Domestic Uranium Prospect Is Promising, McGee Finds — Ore Prices Just Above $6 Held Incentive to ’69, ’70 Leasing — Inspection of Fuel Damage Underway in Fermi Reactor — Young is Forum President ; Officers, Directors Chosen; In Other Nations : Euratom to Invite Proposals for ORGEL Prototype Plant — Argentina Approaches Choice Of Reactor For First Plant — Franco–Spanish Agreement Signed For 500 MWE Plant — SENA Reactor Goes Critical ; Belgian Projects Delayed; In Government : Seaborg Restates AEC Case For Advanced Converters — Licensed and New Reactors Given Safeguards Review — 8 AEC–Industry Task Forces Aid in Updating 1962 Report — Policies Are Still Lacking on Nuclear Merchant Ships — AEC Considers Closing Out Private Centrifuge Projects — AEC to Form Industry Panel For Isotope Licensing Study; Where They Stand
December — Number 12 •: Boston Edison Defers Urban Site — Reactor Manufacturers Standardize and Expand — AEC Makes Revisions in Toll Enrichment Criteria

1967 Volume 14

Index for 1967
January — Number 1 •: Commonwealth Edison to Add More Nuclear Capacity — 1967–70 Private Uranium Sales Near 15,000 Tons — AEC to Compromise on Workmen’s Compensation
February — Number 2 •: AEC Fares Well In Tight Federal Fiscal 1968 Budget — Six Nuclear Power Plant Orders Placed ; Others Proposed — Utilities Move Ahead on West Coast Nuclear–Desalting Project
March — Number 3 •: AEC Sharpens Breeder, Converter Policies — Nuclear Rocket Slated for Flight Development — Reactor Manufacturers to Expand Capacity — Utilities Back Industry Breeder R&D Programs
April — Number 4 •: JCAE Licensing Review Identifies Few Problems — Management Forum Airs AEC and Industry Views — Rapsodie : Key to France’s Nuclear Power Future
May — Number 5 •: Mine Radiation Issue Stirs Major Controversy — Pressure Vessel Fabrication Capacity Adequate to ’75 — Third Fuel Reprocessing Plant Scheduled — AEC Acts to Bolster Safeguards Procedures
June — Number 6 •: Labor Secretary Softens His Mine Radiation Rule — 1967 Nuclear Plant Orders Already Near 1966 Level — AEC Discloses Gaseous Diffusion Plant Capacity
July — Number 7 •: Reactor Prices Up 30—50 Per Cent Over Past Year — Regulatory Review Panel Reports on Contested Cases — Plowshare Reaches Threshold of Commercial Era
August — Number 8 •: Federal Agencies Compromise on Mine Safety — NJ Utility Gives Up on Burlington Site — Municipals Challenge Section 104 Licensing — AEC to Move Ahead on Exposure Record Keeping
September — Number 9 •: Municipals Battle for Share in Investor–Owned Plants — Utilities Run Afoul of Thermal Pollution Standards — Earthquake Criteria Filed on Artificial Island Site
October — Number 10 •: Factors Underlying AEC’s Enrichment Charge Assessed — Outlook for Additional Cooling Requirements Still Cloudy — Design Against Ground Displacement Advised for Island Site
November — Number 11: At Forum Conference : Uranium Supply Outlook — Licensing Reforms — Ownership Participation — Competition — Treaty Safeguards; Budget Dictates Smaller Rocket; In Industry : Manufacturers, AEC Expect Lull in ’68 Reactor Orders — Small Vessel Cracks Cause Further Oyster Creek Delay — Gulf Acquisition of GA Aims at Major Nuclear Role — Nuclear Power Investments to ’81 Estimated by Seaborg — Three Manufacturers Plan Breeder Commitments for ’70 — CE Gives Western Nuclear $26 Million Uranium Order — Kerr–McGee, Getty to Expand Nuclear Fuel Operations — AEC Urged Not to Compete With Commercial Cobalt–60 — 8 New Directors Elected to Forum Board 2 Renamed — Instrument Makers Advised On Process Control Market — Northern States Power Puts The Accent on Environment — Undersea, Space, Air Uses Of Nuclear Power Discussed — Irradiated Food Industry Still Frustrated by FDA — Plowshare Proposal Made For Attack on Oil Shale — 60% of Californians Polled Favorable to Nuclear Plants; In Other Nations : Big New UN Conference Proposed for ’70 or ’71 — New British Energy Policy Stressed Nuclear Power’s Role — 4 Japanese Utilities Push Nuclear Power Plant Plans; In Government : Aiken Bill Aims at Debate On Ownership Participation — Task Force Report Issued On Emergency Core Cooling — Thermal Effects Problems Tackled on Three Fronts — Legislation Proposes Aid For Nuclear Ship Building — AEC Reprocessing Policies Published for Comment — Congressional Unit Endorses Brookhaven Buying Policy — Hosmer Urges Wider Role for AEC’s National Labs; Where They Stand; Commercial Nuclear Power — Projects and Plans
December — Number 12 •: Dual–Purpose Nuclear Plant to Supply Process Steam — AEC Issues Table for Determining Enrichment Charges — Flexible Cooling Tower Operation Proposed for Vermont — Federal, State Surveys Show Reduced Mine Radiation Levels

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