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...site selection from tough environmental scrutiny. The bill does not endorse any particular storage technology, but the most likely approach will employ long, narrow metal canisters, to be loaded with spent fuel, embedded deep in the rock of large (2,000-acre) manmade caverns, then completely covered over. Aboveground, a typical waste burial site is expected to look something like a mining operation. The method of waste transport is also an issue unaddressed by the bill. The preferred mode is by train; the Energy Department claims success testing a 150-ton railcar cask able to withstand crashes and fires...
...install a computer-controlled file locator system and conveyor belts throughout the tunnels in order to turn them into a vault. Cost: an estimated $2million. Despite those expenses, subterranean storage is expected to cost only $1 per sq. ft., compared with up to $50 per sq. ft. for aboveground space...
...imagination, to believe that strongly in a place no longer there, it should be equally possible to believe in a peace with the Arabs that is not yet there either. For too long now Israel has peered into a vacated grave for proof of its life. That life is aboveground, and straight ahead...
...there was an unexpected lull. Again the Israeli loudspeakers bellowed in Arabic, "Don't be afraid. Go where we told you to. Leave your houses." This was evidently addressed to West Beirut civilians. But if anyone had been far enough aboveground to hear the exhortation, he or she could hardly have complied: anything waving a finger in the 60-meter-wide alley at the so-called museum crossing would have been killed instantly. Amid all this, roosters began to crow...
Sancho, who was born in Costa Rica, was also a student radical in San Salvador. In the late 1960s, he began to organize workers, peasants and students into clandestine armed cells in the department of San Vicente. He worked aboveground as a professor of art history for the Salvadoran Ministry of Education. In 1970, Sancho formed "The Group," a political-military organization that brought together radical students and radical Christians. Like the other organizations, FARN bankrolled itself through kidnapings; Sancho is accused of responsibility for the 1978 kidnaping-assassination of Japanese Industrialist Fujio Matsumoto, among others. By one estimate, FARN...