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...power reactors-could be used to produce a homemade atom bomb. To demonstrate that possibility NOVA commissioned a 20-year-old undergraduate chemistry student to try to design an A-bomb in five weeks, working alone and using only published information available to the general public. The result: a blueprint for a plutonium bomb with an estimated destructive capability of 100 to 1,000 tons of TNT. The student (portrayed by Actor John Holecek) describes the ease with which he mastered basic bomb making, sketching the structure of his bomb in a childlike doodle of two circles...
...against oil spills. Then there are disruptions onshore, which New Jersey Governor Brendan Byrne described as the "helter-skelter development" of pipelines, refineries and storage tanks. Interior's impact statement, critics charge, deals with such problems inadequately. Indeed. California Senator John Tunney called the Government proposals "a nightmarish blueprint for disaster...
...Atlantic Richfield Co. and three other firms recently suspended a big oil-shale project in Colorado after cost estimates for a 50,000 bbl.-per-day plant jumped from $450 million to $800 million. A price of $7 for oil, concluded the Federal Energy Administration in its Project Independence Blueprint last fall, could boost consumption back to wasteful levels while providing only a slight stimulus to production, thus actually increasing U.S. dependence on foreign...
...intervention in the event of a strangling oil embargo. Two such experts with access to the thinking of the Joint Chiefs of Staff have pieced together a composite of these alternatives and filtered it out to other analysts. The composite represents high-level rumination rather than a final, actual blueprint. But it is couched in considerable detail and shows a knowledge of up-to-date military tactics and a "roughneck's" expertise in oil production...
...assumption is that high prices would spur a 114% rise in U.S. oil production over a decade while depressing consumption, thus enabling the U.S. to stop importing oil altogether. In this area, the OECD researchers are even more optimistic than the Federal Energy Administration; in its Project Independence Blueprint published last fall, the FEA foresaw imports still hovering at 3.5 million bbl. a day in 1985, even in a high-price situation. A price drop to $7.20, the OECD continues, would leave the U.S. still importing 5.1 million bbl. a day by 1985, while a return to $3.60 oil-which...