Fiscal Year 1980 Department of Energy Authorization for Atomic Energy Defense Activities: Hearing Before the Committee on Armed Services, United States Senate, Ninety-sixth Congress, First Session, on S. 673 ... March 26, 1979 |
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activities additional Admiral RICKOVER aircraft Answer attack submarines authorization budget request building capability capital equipment carrier Chairman Committee Comprehensive Test Ban Congress construction cores cost cruise missile defense programs defense waste Department of Energy effort estimated facilities fiscal year 1980 funding GILBERT heavy water high level waste Idaho included increase inertial confinement fusion laboratories laser ment million N-reactor Naval Nuclear Propulsion Naval Reactors Navy Nimitz Class carrier NLUF Nuclear Materials Production nuclear powered nuclear propulsion nuclear submarines nuclear testing nuclear weapon design nuclear weapons operating percent personnel planned plutonium Portsmouth Naval Shipyard problems processing Question radiation exposure reliability requirements research and development Richland safeguards Sandia Savannah River Secretary SCHLESINGER Senator JACKSON Senator THURMOND ships shipyard SSN688 Class stockpile tion tritium upgrading uranium verification warhead waste management weapons design weapons program WIPP
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Page 121 - The results show that the total gamma radioactivity discharged to all harbors in each of the last eight years has been less than two thousandths of a curie. If one person were able to drink the entire amount of radioactivity discharged into any harbor in 1978, he would not exceed the annual radiation exposure permitted by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission for an individual worker.
Page 125 - WALL PLAQUES HAD TO BE INSTALLED IN ROOMS WITH ELECTRIC LIGHTS, ASSURING PEOPLE THAT "THE USE OF ELECTRICITY FOR LIGHTING IS IN NO WAY HARMFUL TO HEALTH, NOR DOES IT AFFECT THE SOUNDNESS OF SLEEP.
Page 157 - attention should be directed to options which offer the prospect of significantly reducing costs while retaining operational adequacy...
Page 5 - That from this appropriation transfers of sums may be made to other agencies of the Government for the performance of the work for which this appropriation is made, and in such cases the sums so transferred may be merged with the appropriation to which transferred...
Page 104 - That the United States adopt the policy of utilizing nuclear propulsion in all future major surface warships; and "3. That a vigorous research and development program for surface warship nuclear propulsion be continued.
Page 77 - Mr. Chairman and members of the committee, it is a pleasure to appear before your committee to discuss the Department of Energy...
Page 104 - Committee issued a report setting forth their analysis and the basis for their recommendations : "1. That the decision to install conventional propulsion in the new aircraft carrier, CVA-67, should be set aside and plans made to install nuclear propulsion in this ship ; and "2. That the United States adopt the policy of utilizing nuclear propulsion in all future major surface warships ; and "3. That a vigorous research and development program for surface warship nuclear propulsion be continued.