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Nuclear Power. Can the Northwest use the atom to generate electricity without endangering the environment and the people? Yes, says Ray emphatically. Oil. Should supertankers be allowed to carry oil from Alaska through Puget Sound, the Northwest's inland sea? Yes again, argues...
Here we have old Homo habilis ensuring the survival of our species for 2 million years on the one hand, and on the other our "civilized" leaders, with twice the brain size, just waiting for a propitious day to blow us into eternal extinction with atom bombs...
...have more clout in France than politicians. So, after leaving the government last March, she returned to the typewriter and banged out The Comedy of Power-a scathing attack on French politicians. As for her former boss, President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, Giroud says, if "an atom bomb fell on France, he would be there to congratulate himself that there had not been two." Giroud's political career, she readily agrees, is now fini...
DIED. Lawrence A. Kimpton, 67, chancellor of the University of Chicago (1951-60); after a long illness; in Melbourne, Fla. Administrator of the University of Chicago's atom bomb project during World War II, Kimpton returned to head a campus stirred by the innovations of Robert M. Hutchins but also faced dropping enrollment, encroaching slums and a $1.4 million deficit. During his tenure Kimpton restored specialization and contributed to community redevelopment...
Examples like these underscore one of the most frightening challenges of the atomic age: how to get rid of a rising flood of radioactive sludge that results from reprocessing uranium to extract plutonium, which is used to make atom bombs and as fuel for fast-breeder reactors. At the moment there is no technology for disposing of this deadly garbage. But the stockpiles of nuclear waste smoldering away in upstate New York are only part of the problem. In addition, each of the nation's 65 nuclear generating stations also produces waste in the form of spent uranium fuel...