b'I n d e x50 year celebration, 254, 255 82; liquid waste discharge, 83; James McClure contract relationships, 46, 51, 53-54, 174-177, 180;A1 statement, 210; water supply for NRTS, 40; and decides on headquarters city, 28, 30-35, 36, 42;W, 90-91, 238, 267ABC Network News, 200 NRTS Burial Ground (waste), 76, 206, 81; risk decides on Idaho site, 2, 15, 26-27, 42; and MTR, 50,Abelson, Philip, 22 investigation, 211; Rocky Flats TRU waste, 208, 197- 111, 114, 194-196; NRTS name change, 217-218;Aberdeen, Idaho, 113200; tritium, 220Arab oil embargo, 218 N RTS reactors, 114 (ETR), 161 (ATR), 163 and 166above-ground storage, 210 architect/engineering (A/E) firm, 46-47 (OMRE), 192 (EBR-I), 200 (ZPPR); organization of,activation product, 23, 80 A rco A d v e rt i s e, 16, 28 r 24-25; organizes NRTS, 38-39, 40-44; radiationadvanced battery technology, 217 Arco Desert, 7, 130 exposure standards, 59, 61, 83, 168 (CERT), 200;Advanced Core Development, 230 Arco High School, 30 radioactive waste disposal/burial, 74, 79, 81-82, Advanced Mixed Waste Treatment Project, 254 Arco, Idaho, 36, 46, 150, 209; lit by nuclear power, 131- 198-203, 204, 207-212; safety programs, 128-130,Advanced Reactivity Measurement Facility No. 1 132; near Naval Proving Ground, 10, 11, 12, 16; 178, 180-183, 222; SL-1, 140, 143-146, 152-156; and(ARMF-1), 262 roads to, 41, 43, 120; hopes for NRTS headquarters State of Idaho, 61-63; weapons and weapons tests, Advanced Reactivity Measurement Facility No. 2 10, c i ty , 30-34 58-59, 78-79. Mentioned, 21, 47, 56, 62, 71, 109, 158,55 1 5 4- 1 Arco substation, 132 190, 206Advanced Test Reactor, 172, 177, 187, 191; design of, Arctic, 26 Atomic Energy Commission offices: Advisory160-162; post-MTR, 194, 195, 197; start-up, 174, Arctic Circle, 138 Committee on Reactor Safeguards (ACRS), 26, 39,176, 179, 183 ar gon gas, 166 50, 132, 134, 154, 158; Chicago Field Office, 46,Advanced Test Reactor Critical Facility (ATRC), 159 Ar gonne Fast Source Reactor (AFSR), 137 106, 187; Cincinnati Field Office, 124; Division ofAEC Headquarters.S e eAtomic Energy Commission A rgonne National Laboratory (Argonne), 36, 74, 109, Nuclear Safety, 178; Division of Reactor Devel-Aerojet General Corporation, 140, 177 197, 208; BORAX safety test program, 128, 130-133, opment, 27, 109; Division of Reactor DevelopmentSpace Program, 177 138; breeder reactor program, FAREand FFTF, 166, and Technology, 174; Division of Reactor SafetyTAerojet Nuclear Corporation, 196, 222; as A E C 186-187; chemical processing, 51, 169; diphenyl Research, 222; Division of Waste Management andc onr cto , 180, 182-183, 212, 219; Chuck Rice, 176; experiment, 44, 49, 50, 163; Experimental Breeder Transportation, 201, 209; Pittsburgh Field Office, 46,t argeothermal project, 212, 215 Reactor I, 46-48, 64, 71; EBR-I accident, 135-136; 106; Schenectady Field Office, 30Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion (ANP) program: 25, field office relationships, 46, 106; Fuel Cycle Facility, Atomic Energy Merit Badge, 170Assembly and Maintenance building, 123; beginning 137; Integral Fast Reactor, 233; MTR, 66, 111;Atomic Energy Plant Committee, 31at NRTS, 116-120; cancellation, 126-127, 147; reuse o rganization of, 23; SL-1 reactor (ALPR), 138, 140; atomic number, 79, 170of facilities, 164, 179, 222, 228; Test Area North, 120, USS Nautilus reactor design, 52; ZPPR, 200 atomic piles, 23125; tests, 120-124, 246 A rgonne National Laboratory-West, 129, 216, 226; EBR- atomic power, 66Airborne Security Program, 2 II, 165-167, 218; IFR, 232, 252; lit up Arco, 131-132; atomic waste, 207Alaska, 138 and Milton Shaw, 183; NRAD, 197, 225; T R E AT, atomic weight, 18, 20, 170Albuquerque, New Mexico, 131 13- Atomics International (AI), 1636 13 7alcohol fuel, 216 A r m y. S e eUnited States Ar matom(s), 24, 76, 108, 136, 170; irradiation, 69-70, 96;yAllegheney County Airport, 51 Army Reactor Experimental Area (AREA), 140 structure of, 18, 20; uranium, in chain reactions, 21,Allen, To ny , 248 Asia, 204 23, 47, 50, 68, 128Allied Chemical Company, 175, 177, 180, 182 arrowheads, 5 Atoms for Peace, 108, 131, 134, 184alpha particle, 20, 79, 170 Atlantic Ocean, 71-72; coast, 8. Atwood, Mike, 2, 4-5, 7American West, 7, 30 Atlas-Agena rocket, 164 Avonlea, 7American Cyanamid, 98, 101, 106 Atomic City, Idaho, 46, 58, 145 Av i a tos Cave, 5, 7rAmerican Nuclear Society, 102, 170, 191-92 Atomic City, the (Idaho Falls), 28 B-17 Flying Fortresses, 13Anders, William, 218 atomic arsenal, 126 B-24 Liberator, 13Anderson, Clinton P., 63 atom(ic) bomb, 14, 22, 25-26, 101 B-70 Bomber, 126Anderson, William, 72 atomic energy: development of, 150,184, 188, 190-192; Babcock & Wilcox Idaho Inc., Andrus, Cecil D., 220, 249; Blue Ribbon Committee, 208, merit badge, 170; Navy propulsion, 86; proof of Ba ch e r, Robert F., 2521 0 2laf principle, 66. See alsonuclear power B a n g, 21 - 11; geothermal project, 214; LOFTy o fs, 180;nuclear development in Idaho, 204-206, 219; waste Atomic Energy Act of 1946, 24-25, 108 Bannock (Tribe), 3, 6-7removal from Idaho, 206-208 Atomic Energy Act of 1954, 108 Barnett, Steele, 189Anselmo, Al, 35 Atomic Energy Commission (AEC, AEC Headquarters): Barnwell, South Carolina, 232anti contamination clothing (anti-Cs), 75, 89, 144 and A NPprogram, 118119, 125; becomes Bartlesville, Oklahoma, 54-57- Anticipated transients without scrams (ATWS), 225 ERDA/DOE, 218-219; breeder program, 184-189; Batt, Phil, 254anti-proliferation, 208 chemical reprocessing, 94-98, 101, 103, 169, 172; Beam Research Reactor, 194Aqe, Snake River Plain: environmental monitoring, civilian power industry, 72, 92, 108, 132-136, 163; Beard, Vi c to r, 116, 123uif r3 1 7'