In 1972 the old Atomic Energy Commission abandoned plans to build a nuclear dump near Lyons, Kans.

FORBES: How Carlsbad got WIPPed

Both the Japan Atomic Energy Commission and Japan Nuclear Fuel have cited October as the startup date for the facility.

WSJ: U.S. Opposes Japan's Nuclear Plan

America's Atomic Energy Commission asked Mr Kneese for his comments on the possible economic effects of atomic power generation on the environment.

ECONOMIST: Allen Kneese

The idea of the fusion torch attracted a lot of attention, and won its inventors an award from America's Atomic Energy Commission.

ECONOMIST: Nuclear waste

Schlesinger , former Director of the Atomic Energy Commission, Director of Central Intelligence, and Secretary of the Departments of Defense and Energy.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy

In 1954 Oppenheimer was called up before the Atomic Energy Commission, subjected to a farcical show trial and stripped of his security clearance.

ECONOMIST: Robert Oppenheimer

The Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission says the country's two plants both observe international safeguards which prevent irradiated fuel from being used in nuclear weapons development.

BBC: Pakistan opens Chinese-aided nuclear plant

They worked for Pakistan's Atomic Energy Commission until retiring in 1999.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: China: The Not-So-Hidden Dragon in the War on Terror

Tanaka, formerly vice chairman of the Japan Atomic Energy Commission, appears to get his authority from Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda as opposed to the central government of the Diet, the Japanese parliament.

FORBES: Fukushima Slugfest -- Japan's New Nuclear Regulation Authority

The visit to SESAME will feature meetings with the President of the SESAME Council, Professor Sir Chris Llewellyn Smith, the Director of SESAME Dr. Khaled Toukan, who is also Chairman of the Jordan Atomic Energy Commission as well as with the Administrative Director of SESAME, Professor Yasser Khalil.

UNESCO: CULTURE