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...more esoteric kind of triumph. When the green line made its telltale movement at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, the sprawling high-energy physics research center outside Chicago, it signified a major scientific achievement. At that instant, Fermilab's newly rebuilt accelerator (physicists prefer that term to atom smasher) climbed to 512 billion electron volts (GeV),* the highest energy level ever reached by the powerful machines used by physicists to study the fundamental secrets of matter...
DIED. Robert A. Lewis, 65, co-pilot of the B-29 Enola Gay on its August 1945 mission to drop the atom bomb over Hiroshima; of a heart attack; in Smithfield, Va. A test pilot of the then new B29, he was chosen because he was known to be cool under stress, though watching the blast he said, "My God, what have we done!" Lewis kept a private record of the flight, which he later sold for $37,000. "If I live a hundred years," he wrote, "I'll never quite get these few minutes out of my mind...
...emphasis on the second dimension of her theory. Half a century ago she saw institutions destroyed in Japan and Stalinist Russia, and watched idealism self-distract in the country side of Civil War-torn Spain. In the last 15 years--she has seen the Vietnam War. Watergate and the atom bomb trigger the same reactions in the United States, she has with increasing frequency turned to history for answers. Although she still retains her humanistic vision, she has gradually focused more attention on dredging history for clues...
From the very beginning, the U.S. nuclear-power industry has suffered one setback after another. Electricity was produced from the atom for the first time in December 1951 at Experimental Breeder Reactor 1, a station near Arco, Idaho. Typically even for then, the switch was thrown several months behind schedule. Nonetheless the dream of the day was that nuclear-generated electricity was not far off and that when it arrived, it would be "too cheap to meter...
...biggest deterrent to nuclear power, even more so than burdensome regulation and community fears about safety. Buoyant assumptions about industrial growth, in vogue when most nuclear plants were conceived, have not held up. Smokestack industries-autos, steel, chemicals-that were expected to consume more and more electricity from the atom are waning in importance in the American economy as imports grab bigger shares of U.S. markets. Demand for electricity by what was supposed to be an ever more affluent, wasteful society has fallen off sharply. U.S. consumption of electricity declined 2% or so last year after rising at an average...