If anyone wants to build a low-power nuclear reactor, the Atomic Energy Commission will tell him how. Last week the AEC, jointly with Britain and Canada, announced a new "Declassification Guide," which permits the release of such information. Still restricted, of course, is information about large-scale reactors (which make plutonium) and about atomic weapons themselves.
"The three governments," said the AEC, "have determined that the release of information . . . will speed the training of nuclear reactor engineers and technicians and will hasten atomic energy development in these countries, particularly for peacetime applications. It was determined that this information would not...
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