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...chain reaction of setbacks hits the industry, but the need for power remains It began with such promise. The scientists and engineers who had shown the terrible destructive power of the atom at Hiroshima and Nagasaki were going to harness its tremendous force in an atoms-for-peace program. They would build nuclear power plants producing electricity so easily that it would be "too cheap to meter." At a time when technology promised an almost boundless potential for improving humankind, nuclear power seemed so modern...
Opponents and critics of nuclear power are ready to write its obituary. But they are likely to be disappointed. Reports of the industry's death are premature. This year the U.S. will get 13% of its electricity from the atom; by the mid-1990s, according to some estimates, that figure will have risen to about 20%, and nuclear power will be the nation's most important source of electricity after coal...
Despite the fears about safety, the difficulties of disposing of waste materials and the outrageous construction-cost overruns, nuclear power is not finished. The atom will be part of America's and the world's energy future. "We'll all live to see the building of additional nuclear plants down the road," says W.S. White, chairman of Columbus & Southern Ohio Electric Co. The U.S. may never have to rely on nuclear power to provide most of its energy, but it does need reactors for a large portion of its electricity. American consumers want to continue flicking light switches and turning...
...Reagan to the Japanese Diet, an honor no previous U.S. President had been accorded. Reagan concentrated on themes of alliance and peace. The U.S. and Japan "can become a powerful partnership for good," he declared. Speaking of arms control, the President of the only nation ever to use atom bombs in war told the elected representatives of the people on whom the bombs were dropped that "a nuclear war can never be won and must never be fought. The only value in possessing nuclear weapons is to make sure they can't be used, ever...
...world-renowned scientists who once worked together to develop the atom bomb squared off last night over the next development in the arms race--weapons for outer space...