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...core issue is radioactivity. In large doses, it kills. In small doses, it can cause cancer and genetic mutations. To guard against harmful amounts escaping into the environment, the nuclear industry, following standards set and enforced by the AEC, has equipped plants with so many redundant safety features that the chance of a major accident seems infinitesimal. The critics cite "Murphy's Law"-if anything can go wrong, it will-and point out that after a year of operation, the average big nuclear plant contains 1,000 times as much radioactivity as the Hiroshima bomb...
...making their case, the critics have found-often with the help of the AEC'S own scientists-weak points in atomic technology, and so have spurred revisions in nuclear policies. Late last year, for example, the AEC issued new regulations to answer doubts concerning a crucial back-up safety device. Called the "emergency core cooling system" (ECCS), it is supposed to bathe the intensely hot reactor core with cooling water, thus preventing it from melting and releasing its radioactivity, if the primary cooling system fails. In 1972 an antinuclear coalition that calls itself the National Intervenors revealed in hearings...
They could have crushed together into tiny black holes-some of them even smaller than a virus. These black holes would have relatively strong gravitational fields, but observers could approach within several hundred feet without being drawn into them. According to AEC Astrophysicists Lowell Wood, Thomas Weaver and John Nuckolls, if such bizarre little objects do indeed exist near the earth, their gravity might well be put to work...
Died. Lewis Lichtenstein Strauss, 77, chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission from 1953-58; of cancer; in Brandy Station, Va. A banker and naval-reserve officer who became right-hand man to James V. Forrestal, a Secretary of the Navy under Franklin D. Roosevelt, Strauss was appointed to the AEC in 1946. During a dispute in the scientific community, Strauss backed the development of the hydrogen bomb when it was opposed by J. Robert Oppenheimer, the father of the Abomb. Strauss prevailed, and in dramatic loyalty hearings in 1954, Oppenheimer lost his security clearance. When President Eisenhower nominated Strauss...
...Federal Power Commission have claimed the plant would kill 3 per cent of the striped bass hatch yearly; the AEC study, released this week by Sen. Abraham S. Ribicoff (D-Conn.) estimates a 25 per cent to 75 per cent annual kill...