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Bloomington-Normal, III. Pantacvaph A-5 Jan. 20, 1975 fa Atomic Energy Commission ends stormy history today By Thomas O'Toole tienerated in the U.S. in 1980 would be its nuclear image seems sure to dim in the next 20 years. One reason Seamans was picked to head up EHUA is that he has no roots with the AKC.

He had been deputy administrator at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and Secretary of the Air Force. Seamans' choice for his deputy is Robert t'ri. former deputy at the Environmental Protection Agency. Seamans says that nuclear-power development is still a prime goal of ERDA, but he has his eye on other things. His top priority is development of a synthetic-fuels industry, which he hopes will lx? making a petroleum-like liquid and a synthetic form of natural gas out of coal.

"Our target date is M5," Seamans said. "We hope that in 10 years we will be getting the equivalent of 1 million barrels a day out of synthetic fuels." To push this, Seamans will have a $4.6 billion budget behind him. That's $600 million more than is being spent on all the energy projects under his control in the current fiscal year. from these BLOOMINGTON-NORMAL USED CAR mm mm wm DEALERS sources, many ol trie missions nown uy the space agency could never have succeeded. Powered Pioneer The two Pioneer spacecraft that sent back signals from Jupiter got their power from the atom.

So did Mariner 9, which orbited Mars three years ago. One navigation satellite orbited in 1961 still sends out signals from its nuclear generator. The atomic-powered instruments left on the moon by five of the six Apollo landing crews still beam their messages back to Earth. Now the AEC that built these devices is no more. In the 30 years it survived it spend almost $6(1 billion, at least half of that on weapons development and tests.

It was managed by 34 commissioners and 8 general managers. The AEC had seven chairmen, including three (David Lilienthal, Lewis Strauss and James Schlesinger) who may have made a lasting impact on national affairs. At least 80 per cent of the new Energy Research and Development Administration has its roots in the old AEC, but Court Notes McLEAN COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT ASSOCIATE DIVISION Two charges of disorderly conduct against Howard fmnpkins, 30, Hpyworth, dismissed, one (or failure of comrilaint to slate a cause of action, one on order of Judqe Joseph H. Kelley. Previously reported in error as Howard Hopkins.

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The Washington Post WASI IINGTON The federal agency that grew to a giant on the strength of the invisible atom shrinks into oblivion Monday, a victim of the energy crisis it promised to cure as long as a quarter of a century ago. By White House order and Congressional consent, the Atomic Energy Commission now becomes part of the Energy Research and Development Administration. The AEC's demise marks the end of an era, one that took man from the birth of the most terrible weapon in history to a shortage of natural fuels so severe that it threatens the 20th Century lifestyle he so carefully constructed. The AEC's successor has its task cut out. In the next 10 years it must start the United States back on the road to energy self-sufficiency, a job some energy experts think impossible.

Time is rapidly running out on a nation now habitually dependent on oil for most of its energy needs. "We're paying out $25 billion a year to import oil into this country," Robert C. Seamans, the first head of the Energy Research and Development Administration, said in an interview. "That means we're in trouble right now, and it means we must move out with a plan to develop a domestic synthefic-fuels industry." Promise dims There was a time when uranium and nuclear power offered that promise. The promise is still there, but its speed of fulfillment seems to slow with each passing year.

At the dawn of the Nuclear Age 25 years ago people talked about running the Queen Mary across tbe Atlantic on the nuclear energy contained in a glass of water. Such absurd predictions soon vanished, but as recently as 10 years ago the Atomic Energy Commission forecast that as much as 30 per cent of the power Club dates WAYNESVILLE (PNS) The Way-nesville Women's Welfare Club will meet at 1:30 p.m. Wendesday at the home of Mrs. Ethel Reinhart. William Smith, an attorney from Clinton, will speak on "Legal Rights for Women." MELVIN (PNS) The Melvin-Sibley PTA will meet at 7:30 p.m.

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Tuesday at the Masonic building. Good squash has rind Tough rind is a sign of quality in winter squash. It is a sign of maturity and good nuclear electricity. By last count, about 6 per cent of the electric power produced in the U.S. came from fissioning uranium.

It could climb to 8 per cent by 1980, but it might be the year 2000 before it reaches 30 per cent. Inflation has helped to cripple the atom. It costs $1 billion and takes as long as nine years to construct an atomic power plant. There are still "bugs" in the nuclear machinery. Michigan's Consumers Power Co.

built a $500 million nuclear plant on Lake Michigan, then waited a year for its while technicians ironed out all the wrinkles. The electric power industry has postponed or cacneled 60 per cent of its nuclear construction projects, and, while it is also deferring plans to build oil and coal-fired plants, it is not doing so at anywhere near the rate that it is turning its back on nuclear. 'I'll wait' "If you need a plant in 1984, you have to order it today if it's going to be nuclear," points out John O'Leary, a onetime AEC official who now works for the Mitre one of the nation's foremost energy advisers. "But you have until 1978 to order that plant if it's going to be coal. So an awful lot of people are saying, 'Okay, I'll wait'." Part of the blame for the atom's slow advance must belong to the AEC, whose commissioners and managers seemed bedazzled by the novelty of nuclear energy.

The difficulties of dealing with atomic power often were minimized. One reason for this has been the secrecy behind which the AEC hid for so long. It was not until James R. Schlesinger (now Secretary of Defense) became chairman in 1971 that the AEC began to open itself up, but by that time damage had been done to a nuclear power program that should have been forced through a more vigorous public debate. The secrecy grew out of the control of the technology that produced the atomic bomb and then the hydrogen bomb.

There are as many as nuclear warheads in the U.S. arsenal today, and as many as 20 different warhead designs. The AEC has been responsible for all of them, just as it has been responsible for the secrecy that surrounds their design. Security "There was no simple resolution of this conflict in the worrisome period of the late 1940s and early 1950s," wrote Corbin Allardice and Edward Trapnell in their recent history of the AEC, published by Praeger. "Secrets were important.

Security was the term applied to all the means of preserving the secrets." In the 30 years of its existence the Atomic Energy Commission kept most of its secrets. Its two known security breaches came during the war, before the AEC was a real agency, when Klaus Fuchs and David Greenglass were passing secrets from the Los Alamos weapons laboratory to agents of the Soviet Union. Despite the disenchantment with the progress of nuclear energy, the AEC cannot be faulted on most of its other developments, with the exceptions of the ill-fated atomic airplane and nuclear rocket. One of its most successful is the power plant for the nuclear submarine, today still a marvel of modern technology. More than 100 atomic submarines are seaworthy servants of the U.S.

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