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From several standpoints, nuclear power seems an ideal answer to the continuing energy problem in the U.S. For utilities, it makes economic sense to construct plants that use heat from splitting atoms of uranium to spin turbines that generate electric power. Though the average plant costs 10% to 30% more to build than one that burns coal or oil, operating costs are much lower. Nuclear plants are also relatively kind to the environment. They discharge hot water that can harm aquatic life and change the characteristics of lakes; but they cause no air pollution, no spills at sea, no strip...
...oratories in cities round the world, psychologists, biologists, physicists and chemists, recognizing that what goes on inside the brain cannot be divorced from what goes on outside, in increasing numbers are poking, prodding and analyzing the organ in an attempt to unlock its secrets. Man has split the atom, cracked the genetic code and, in a Promethean step unimaginable less than a quarter-century ago, leaped from his own terrestrial home to the moon. But he has yet to solve the mysteries of memory, learning and consciousness or managed to understand himself...
PRESIDENT NIXON, in his speech last Wednesday night, called research and development the long-term answer to the energy crisis. Just as U.S. technology successfully developed the atom bomb and Apollo 11, it will develop an alternative source of energy, he maintained. The problem and the long term answer, however, do not lie in any particular energy source but in the mentality of the American people...
...such unusual combinations had long been known, it was Fischer and Wilkinson who first identified and explained the structure of a special class of organometallics, called sandwich compounds, that seemed to defy all known chemical rules. In these compounds, Fischer and Wilkinson found, the hydrocarbon molecules hold the metal atom between them, as if in a sandwich...
...Atomic Energy Commission, long a prime target of criticism by environmentalists, is changing. Traditionally secretive, the commission recently surprised its detractors by offering Antinuclear Crusader Ralph Nader access to all its reports on peaceful uses of the atom. New AEC policies have also dismayed the $20-billion-a-year nuclear power industry. The commission has ordered Consolidated Edison Co. to protect fish in the Hudson River by building a costly water-cooling system at a nuclear power plant near Peekskill, N. Y. In New Jersey, the AEC has banned construction of a long-planned nuclear plant because it would have...