| Show Government Chooses Site II n d Se S. Ce C. for Plant WASHINGTON ASHINGTON V Nov 28 UP I The government will build a huge atomic energy layout in South Carolina to make materials for the awesome hydrogen bomb In an announcement Tuesday of the sites site's selection the atomic energy commission emphasized that the plants will not manufacture manufacture ture the bomb itself or any atomic atomic w weapons apons It said they will provide I materials which can be used either cither I for weapons or for fuels potentially potentially potentially poten poten- useful for power purposes The whole project is the result in part however of last Januarys January's decision to und under under- r- r take talce manufacture of H-bombs H expected to be many times limes more powerful than the atomic bombs dropped on Japan The plants will be located on a acre site sill in Aiken and ancl Barnwell counties near the Savannah Savannah Savannah Savan Savan- nah river To make malee way for the plants and the surrounding surrounding- security and safety zone it will be necessary for about 1500 families to relocate relocate relocate relo relo- cate in the next 18 months the theA theA A E C said Construction js to begin early next year ear The I. I E Du Pont de Nemours Co of Wilmington Del will design build and operate the plants Du Pont set up tip the Hanford Wash Vash atomic energy plant which made materials for the A After the war it withdrew from opera operation tion of the plant plan t. t The South Carolina site sile lies along the Savannah river in Aiken and Barnwell counties It is about 15 miles from the town of Aileen Aiken S. S C. C and about 20 miles from Augusta Ga The river is the boundary line between the states stales I of South Carolina and Georgia I The A E C said the site was se selected selected selected se- se after a months four-months study of more than possible sites by Du Pont and A E C engineers with the assistance of other federal agencies |
