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Uranium Mining and the AEC: The Birth Pangs of a New Industry*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 July 2012

Herbert H. Lang
Herbert H. Lang
Affiliation:
Associate Professor of History, Texas A & M College
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Abstract

The interrelationship of national security, the Atomic Energy Commission, government financial support, and the birth pangs of a new and growing industry with unusual competitive characteristics are examined in this article.

Type
Research Article
Information
Business History Review , Volume 36 , Issue 3 , Autumn 1962 , pp. 325 - 333
Copyright
Copyright © The President and Fellows of Harvard College 1962

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References

1 Release No. 249, Grand Junction Operations Office, USAEC, Sept.23, 1959.

2 Release No. 249, Grand Junction Operations Office, USAEC, May 24, 1956.

3 Uranium Magazine, vol. III (June, 1956), p. 48A, and Mining World, vol. XVIII (Sept., 1956), p. 5.

4 Mining Engineering, vol. VIII (June, 1956), p. 583.

5 Address by Jesse C. Johnson, Director, Division of Raw Materials, USAEC, before the 4th Annual Conference of the Atomic Industrial Forum, New York, Oct. 28, 1957.

6 Nucleonics, vol. XVI (Jan., 1958), p. 23.

7 Uranium Magazine, vol. IV (Nov.-Dec, 1957), p. 6; Salt Lake Tribune, Dec. 17, 1957; and Uranium Magazine, vol. V (Feb., 1958), p. 14.

8 Development Growth and State of the Atomic Energy Industry, Hearings before the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy, Congress of the United States, 85th Cong. 2d Sess. (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1958), p. 552.

9 Moab Times-Independent, Feb. 13, 1958.

10 Uranium Magazine, vol. V (March-April, 1958), pp. 10–11.

11 Address by Allan E. Jones, Manager, Grand Junction Operations Office, USAEC, before the Uranium Institute of America, Albuquerque, May 27, 1958.

12 Address by Jesse C. Johnson, Director, Division of Raw Materials, USAEC, before the Western Mining Conference, Denver, Feb. 7, 1958.

13 Address by Senator Clinton P. Anderson, Vice Chairman, Joint Committee on Atomic Energy, before the Uranium Institute of America, Albuquerque, May 27, 1958.

14 Release No. 210, Grand Junction Operations Office, USAEC, April 2, 1958; and Release No. 213, May 8, 1958.

15 Release No. 216, Grand Junction Operations Office, USAEC, Aug. 1, 1958.

16 Moab Times-Independent, May 15, 1958.

17 Release No. 255, Grand Junction Operations Office, USAEC, Dec. 1, 1959.

18 Release No. 220, Grand Junction Operations Office, USAEC, Nov. 24, 1958.

19 Grants Beacon, Aug. 16, 1960.

20 Release No. 252, Grand Junction Operations Office, USAEC, Nov. 6, 1959.

21 Annual Report of the United States Atomic Energy Commission for 1960 (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1961), p. 114.