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Officials of the Soviet Committee for the Utilization of Atomic Energy -comparable to the AEC in the U.S. -seemed surprised that America had largely backed off from Plowshare, the program to use atomic explosions for peaceful purposes. The Soviets, by contrast, are ambitiously experimenting with nuclear explosives to quarry mineral, oil and natural gas deposits, to dig out giant water basins and even to carve new river channels to divert excess water into the Caspian Sea, which is slowly drying...
...theme: "Let's have more cooperation between American and Soviet scientists." Indeed, ever since the agreement last spring between Presidents Nixon and Podgorny to increase scientific cooperation, there has been a sharply increased flow of official and unofficial scientific visitors from the U.S.-Environmental Chief Russel Train, former AEC Chairman Glenn Seaborg and Oceanographer William Nierenberg of the Scripps Institution, to name only a few. One reason for this hospitality is the Kremlin's hope for access to advanced U.S. scientific gear, especially computers. The Russians are also after something else. As one longtime British scientific observer...
...nuclear power plants safe? For years tha Atomic Energy Commission has insisted that they are. For one thing, the AEC argues, the plants are equipped with so many redundant safety devices that any conceivable accident simply could not occur. For another, they are designed to the most rigorous specifications of any peacetime industry. But evidence has recently accumulated aht the AEC's position is not as secure as it sounds. The commission held extensive hearings at Bethesda, Md., to allow nuclear critics, who represented a coalition of 60 citizen groups, to dispute the effectiveness of a safety device called...
...case, the AEC has concluded that it would rather be safe that sorry. It just ordered that seven plants* must operate at restricted power levels until a crash study on the fuel problem is completed later this fall...
...first, the commission's response seemed favorable. Visited by three AEC officials who wanted to learn more about his work, LoDato says, he was admiringly told: "You've done what it cost the Government hundreds of thousands of dollars to do." Then, about three weeks later, the AEC abruptly changed its tune. Invoking secrecy rules known as "Sigma One," which cover weapons-related theoretical work, the commission's division of classification told LoDato that his 15-page proposal had been classified as "secret/restricted data." Subsequently, he says, AEC officials ordered him not to write down anything else...