Show A E EC C Will Not Build City I Near Idaho Atom Plant v WASHINGTON ASHINGTON March 24 UP I The The atomic energy commission said Thurs Thursday ay it will not build a ap p per permanent e r m In n a n e n 11 t town around the nuclear rea reactor tor works it plans to construct near Pocatello Ida The commission inherited three good sized size towns Oak Ridge Tenn Los Alamos Alamo N. N MM M M. and Richland Wash when when it took tool over the atomic energy project from the army more than two years ago It does not want to add a fourth to its collection A commission spokesman said the first necessity is to get the site of its huge new installation nailed down It has picked a acre area which Includes es esthe the navys navy's l acre Arco provin proving proving in ing ground and is now dickering with the navy for possession If the deal leal is concluded soon some preliminary construction is expected to get under way in I about a month When the facilities facilities facilities ties are finished and the plant is going g the commission hopes that the 2000 permanent in in including eluding scientists and technicians can can be absorbed in near-by near communities of the area The Idaho facilities will consist of a sizable plant space to house atomic furnaces engines an and power plants while under tion lion There also will be installations installations installations for the chemical processing of the fissionable material used as reactor fuel uel Other chemical facilities must be provi provided ed for re recovering recovering recovering re- re covering useful atomic material from reactor ashes and for concentrating concentrating concentrating con con- radioactive w was wastes a s t e s 5 which must be disposed of |