Atomic Energy Commission

noun

1. a former federal agency (1946–75) created to regulate the development of the U.S. atomic energy program: functions transferred to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. : AEC

Atomic Energy Commission

noun

1. (in the US) a federal board established in 1946 to administer and develop domestic atomic energy programmes AEC

Atomic Energy Commission

1. An agency of the United States government from 1946 to 1974 that was charged with controlling and developing the use of atomic energy for civilian and military purposes. In 1974, the AEC was abolished, and its duties were divided between two new agencies: the Energy Research and Development Administration (now a part of the Department of Energy ) and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission ( NRC ).

Example Sentences

Atomic Energy Commission member Lewis Strauss, and who’s been nominated twice before without winning.

From Seattle Times

The United States Atomic Energy Commission, the predecessor to the NRC, did license other types of designs.

From Seattle Times

She spoke out against investigations against her fellow scientists during the wave of McCarthyism that spread across the US, and she even wrote to the Atomic Energy Commission to complain about the proceedings.

From Scientific American

In 1966, the Atomic Energy Commission demolished and buried buildings near the airport and moved the waste to another site, contaminating it, too.

From Seattle Times

In 1954, a probing inquiry into Oppenheimer’s leftist politics by a McCarthy-era Atomic Energy Commission stripped him of his security clearance.

From Washington Times