AEC

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AEC was the common abbreviation for the United States Atomic Energy Commission, the federal agency that oversaw nuclear energy development and regulation in the mid-20th century.

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Label Occurrences
AEC canonical 2

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Predicate Object
instanceOf defunct organization
federal agency of the United States
government agency
abbreviation AEC self-link
activityPeriod mid-20th century
controversy conflict between promotion and regulation of nuclear power
safety and environmental impacts of nuclear testing
country United States of America
createdBy Atomic Energy Act of 1946
dissolutionDate January 19, 1975
dissolved 1974
era Cold War
establishedBy United States Congress
field nuclear energy
nuclear weapons
radiation regulation
fullName United States Atomic Energy Commission
governed civilian use of special nuclear material
licensing of nuclear reactors in the United States
headquartersLocation Washington, D.C.
inception 1946
jurisdiction United States government
surface form: Federal government of the United States
legalBasis Atomic Energy Act of 1946
Atomic Energy Act of 1954
locatedInTimeZone Eastern Time Zone
mandate to control and develop atomic energy for peaceful and military purposes
notableChair David E. Lilienthal
Glenn T. Seaborg
Lewis L. Strauss
operationalFrom 1947
oversaw United States nuclear weapons program
civilian nuclear power development in the United States
nuclear reactor research and development
nuclear weapons testing programs
uranium enrichment facilities
precededBy Manhattan Engineer District of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
surface form: Manhattan Engineer District
primaryResponsibility development of nuclear energy
management of nuclear weapons development
regulation of civilian use of nuclear materials
replacedBy Energy Research and Development Administration
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
surface form: Nuclear Regulatory Commission
reportedTo United States Congress
roleInHistory central role in early nuclear power industry
central role in expansion of U.S. nuclear weapons arsenal
startDate August 1, 1946
successorAgencyFunction Energy Research and Development Administration
surface form: Energy Research and Development Administration handled energy R&D functions later absorbed into Department of Energy

U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
surface form: Nuclear Regulatory Commission handles safety regulation of civilian nuclear facilities
supervisedBy President of the United States

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You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10.

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- If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list.
- If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list.
- Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf".
- Do not get too wordy.
- Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
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Subject: AEC
Description of subject: AEC was the common abbreviation for the United States Atomic Energy Commission, the federal agency that oversaw nuclear energy development and regulation in the mid-20th century.

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