May 30 1963
From The Space Library
Dr. Glenn T. Seaborg, AEC Chairman, said in news conference ending 10-day tour of Soviet atomic energy installations that prospects of building joint atomic reactor facility with U.S.S.R. would be negotiated under agreement signed in Moscow last week. Choice of site and cost of project were among initial problems to be solved. Dr. Seaborg and his colleagues were first foreign delegation to visit new Soviet reactor development and testing center at Melekess and 70-bev accelerator under construction at Serpukhov. (Shabad, NYT, 5/31/63, 2)
Chief of the U.S. 14th Coast Guard District in Honolulu, Capt. George D. Synon, was quoted as confirming that a U.S. cutter had entered the Soviet rocket-test zone "by accident" earlier in the month. This was in reply to accusation by the Soviets that the U.S. had observed rocket tests on May 18 and 25. Capt. Synon stated that the cutter "did not do any observing." (AP, Wash,. Post, 5/31/63)
