Year
1961
Abstract
It is certainly a pleasure for me to meet with this group today especially because of my earlier close associations with the Nuclear Materials Management people when I worked in the Chicago Operations Office from 1950 to 1952. During that time I had various assignments, one of them being to help the Argonne National Laboratory and other contractors obtain nuclear materials, isotopes and special reactor materials. Although I can well remember some moments of frustration and many disagreements in trying to obtain these materials, which were much scarcer in those days, I mainly have many pleasant memories of the excellent cooperation we always had from the people working in your field. Some of the individuals I knew at that time are still in this important field and I am delighted to see some of their faces in this audience. Because so many in this audience are longtime veterans in important aspects of the Commission programs, I want to allow some time to have questions and discussion from the floor. There is an old saying you know that a speech does not have to be eternal to be immortal! I came to this meeting to learn from you as well as to offer my own ideas.