...savings from closing a facility may be outweighed by the closeout costs. When the Navy decided in 1977 to "disestablish" the Naval Electronics Systems Engineering...cancer research, and civil defense; in each case, Weinberg's criteria for new projects were that they be "big, expensive, strongly in the national interest...

...research and development, and perform most of the actual manufacturing and construction. Many members of the Atomic Energy Commission and the congressional Joint Committee on Atomic Energy were sympathetic to private enterprise; they envisioned that industry would be brought fully into the...

...Chapter 7 in this volume; White 1982). In the nuclear sector, after the demise in the mid-1970s of the Atomic Energy Commission and the congressional Joint Committee on Atomic Energy, policy forums responsible for the regulation of commercial nuclear energy became particularly accessible...

...Civilian nuclear power was made possible by the Atomic Energy Act of 1947. This legislation created the Atomic Energy Commission and the congressional Joint Committee on Atomic Energy (JCAE), the two primary promoters of civilian nuclear power under the "Atoms for Peace" program. The...

...merits were declared without any operating history, and without any open and prolonged public debate. "The Atomic Energy Commission and the [Congressional] Joint Committee [on Atomic Energy]," explains Stephen L. Del Sesto, "actually represented only one part of a broad attempt to set policy...

...over the US nuclear weapons establishment, for instance, was deliberately unified in the late 1940s in the Atomic Energy Commission and the Congressional Joint Committee on Atomic Energy. This cozy arrangement was finally broken down in the mid-1970s by an opposition social movement and...