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Bohr and his Chicago-born collaborator Mottelson (also a Danish citizen), both associated with Copenhagen's Niels Bohr Institute, *and Rainwater, of Columbia University, were cited for their 1940s and 1950s research on the inner structure of the atom. They helped explain oddities in the nucleus' behavior by showing that its myriad components spun and vibrated so as to distort the nucleus into an unexpected ellipsoid, rather than a sphere. These new insights helped set the stage for many of the important advances in particle physics during the past two decades of experimentation...
...Curbs. The situation in Washington has been equally disappointing to Nader and his colleagues. The new Congress, which has many members who have professed serious misgivings about the peaceful atom, has so far failed to pass any bill to curb nuclear energy. The lawmakers are clearly reluctant to act against a technology that already supplies 8.5% of the nation's electricity and generates employment as well-especially when there are no alternative energy sources ready to be used. All this is not to deny that nuclear energy still poses many grave problems. But whether "education"-which to the Naderites...
...copies. Director Robert Altman (Nashville) will film the book next year. To date, Doctorow is best known as the author of The Book of Daniel, an extraordinary succès d'estime that narrowly missed the National Book Award for 1971. Despite parallels to the Rosenberg atom-spy case, the novel has an anguished life all its own. Many of its scenes were set in the Bronx neighborhood where Doctorow grew up. Part of Ragtime also has resonances from the Doctorow past, principally from the New York City suburb of New Rochelle, where the author now lives with...
...pacing, and captures the proper folksiness. He is not afraid of pauses, whether to light his pipe or to contemplate what he wants to say next. In a couple of places he changes Wilder's words, updating a reference to "the treaty of Versailles and the Lindbergh flight" to "atom bombs and Apollo flights...
...century, as oil and natural gas reserves begin to run down, ERDA foresees a shift to two "essentially inexhaustible" sources of power: solar energy and nuclear power. While some other alternatives, notably geothermal power, will have a role to play, ERDA has decided that the sun and the atom are "the major candidates for meeting energy needs of the future." If the approach ERDA espouses is successful, the agency forecasts that by the year 2000 the U.S. will have 450 nuclear generating plants (current total: 55) and anywhere from 200 to 400 plants that convert solar power to electricity...