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*the united states atomic energy commission (AEC) was an agency of the ‘united states government’ established after ‘world war 2’ by ‘congress’ to ‘foster’ + ‘control’ the ‘peacetime development’ of ‘atomic science’ + ‘technology’*
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(president ‘harry s. truman’ signed the ‘McMahon/Atomic Energy Act’ on ‘1 august 1946’, transferring the control of ‘atomic energy’ from ‘military’ to civilian hands, effective from 1 january 1947)
(this shift gave the first members of the AEC complete control of the plants, laboratories, equipment, and personnel assembled during the war to produce the ‘atomic bomb’)
(during its initial establishment and subsequent operationalization, the AEC played a key role in the institutional development of ‘Ecosystem ecology’)
(specifically, it provided crucial financial resources, allowing for ecological research to take place)
(perhaps even more importantly, it enabled ecologists with a wide range of groundbreaking techniques for the completion of their research)
(in the late 1950s and early 1960s, the AEC also approved funding for numerous bio-environmental projects in the Arctic and near-Arctic)
(these projects were designed to examine the effects of nuclear energy upon the environment and were a part of the Commission’s attempt at creating peaceful applications of ‘atomic energy’)
(an increasing number of critics during the 1960s, charged that the AEC’s regulations were insufficiently rigorous in several important areas, including ‘radiation protection standards’, ‘nuclear reactor safety’, ‘plant siting’, and ‘environmental protection’)
(by 1974, the AEC’s regulatory programs had come under such strong attack that Congress decided to abolish the agency)
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(the agency was abolished by the ‘energy re-organization act of 1974’, which assigned its functions to 2 new agencies…)
*the ‘energy research + development administration’*
*the ‘nuclear regulatory commission’
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(on ‘4 august 1977’, ‘president jimmy carter’ signed into law The Department of Energy Organization Act of 1977, which created the ‘department of energy’)
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(the new agency assumed the responsibilities of the ‘federal energy administration’, the ‘energy research and development administration’, the ‘federal power commission’, and programs of various other agencies)
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