NOUN
- a former executive agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States
How To Use Atomic Energy Commission In A Sentence
- The Atomic Energy Commission is concerned mainly with fundamental research work at the universities and in the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research in Bombay and with problems associated with the discovery of uranium and the processing of thorium from the huge monazite sand deposits of southern India. Atom and Empire
- But Ned Xoubi fuel cycle commissioner at Jordan's Atomic Energy Commission, said: "Developing countries are in dire need of energy.
- Atomic Energy Commission at that time, otherwise they certainly would have done the obvious follow-up experiment, using uniformly U-14C labeled cytidine themselves. Irwin Rose - Autobiography
- Resistance by those who seek to secure profits from high-priced petroleum, plus the domination of basic fuel research (until recently) by the Atomic Energy Commission and the military have delayed the development of efficient coal gasification and liquification as well as that of new methods of power production like magnetohydrodynamic systems. Energy and Society~ Chapter 16~ Energy in a Contracting System
- The discovery creates a new picture of galaxy formation, says astrophysicist and lead author David Elbaz of CEA, the French Atomic Energy Commission, in Saclay.
- Then, in late 1953, the Atomic Energy Commission succeeded in developing a high-yield, lightweight atomic weapon.
- The first patent in 1972 went to the U. S. Atomic Energy Commission.
