FISCAL YEAR 1987

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

AUTHORIZATION

(Nuclear Fission R&D)

HEARINGS

BEFORE THE

SUBCOMMITTEE ON

ENERGY RESEARCH AND PRODUCTION

OF THE

COMMITTEE ON

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

NINETY-NINTH CONGRESS

For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, Congressional Sales Office
U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC 20402

COMMITTEE ON SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

DON FUQUA, Florida, Chairman

Hon. James W. Vaughan, Jr., Acting Assistant Secretary for Nuclear

Energy, Department of Energy; accompanied by Dr. Delbert F. Bunch,

Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Reactor Deployment, and Jerry

Griffith, Associate Deputy Assistant Secretary for Reactor Systems De-

velopment and Technology

Dr. Fred R. Mynatt, Associate Director, Nuclear and Engineering Tech-

nologies, Oak Ridge National Laboratory; accompanied by Dr. Thomas

T. Claudson, Battelle-Pacific Northwest Laboratories; Dr. Charles E.

Till, Associate Laboratory Director for Reactor R&D, Argonne National

Laboratory; John E. Nolan, president, Hanford Engineering Develop-

ment Laboratory, Westinghouse Hanford; and Dr. Michael G. Steven-

son, Division Leader, Energy Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory

March 6, 1986:

Dr. Raymond S. Colladay, Associate Administrator, Office of Aeronautics

and Space Technology, NASA....

Col. George M. Hess, Jr., Director of Survivability, Lethality and Key

Technologies, Strategic Defense Initiative Organization.

Col. James H. Heilman, Deputy Director, Space Directorate, U.S. Air

Force; accompanied by Col. Roger A. McClain, Chief, Defense and Sur-

veillance Division of the Air Force's Deputy Chief of Staff for Research,

Development and Acquisition, and Stephen A. Hathaway, Energy

Policy, Headquarters Air Force, Tyndall Air Force Base, FL

Jack Berga, Washington representative of nuclear division, Electric

Power Research Institute....

Carl Walske, president, Atomic Industrial Forum, Inc

259

Mitchell S. Diamond, vice president, Booz, Allen & Hamilton, Inc

Richard F. Walker, chairman, Gas-Cooled Reactor Associates

266

285

Richard A. Dean, senior vice president, GA Technologies, Inc..

296

Warren P. Chernock, vice president R&D nuclear power systems, Com-

bustion Engineering, Inc....

310

Dr. Bertram Wolfe, vice president and general manager, Nuclear Tech-

nologies and Fuel Division, General Electric Co.....

332

John McDonald, division director, Atomics International, Rocketdyne Di-

vision, Rockwell International Corp.

345

Dr. W. Howard Arnold, general manager, Advanced Energy Systems

Division, Westinghouse Electric Corp..

355

Dr. Charles E. Till, Argonne National Laboratory.

536

Dr. Thomas T. Claudson, Battelle..

Dr. Michael G. Stevenson, Los Alamos National Laboratory

Col. Robert F. Raggio, U.S. Air Force

541

544

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