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...Breeders. Despite the unknown risks, the Government and the utilities are clearly betting on nuclear power for decades to come, and Congress last month voted to give the builders of nuclear plants an 18-month exemption from having to make environmental reports on the plants' effects. Looking ahead. President Nixon has committed the U.S. to developing a new and still untried generation of nuclear reactors, now receiving the bulk of the U.S. energy research budget ($260 million). Nixon told Congress last year: "Our best hope today for meeting the nation's growing demand for clean energy lies with...
Down the right lane waited his beautiful witch of a wife, Maire, and the power and corruption of London personified by Gog's bastard brother Magnus Ponsonby, nicknamed Magog. In Magog it is learned that Gog went left and north to become a breeder of lobsters and delver into the mysteries of the ancient Druids...
National Goal. To many scientists, the answer is all too obvious: the development of a remarkable new generation of atomic power plants called breeder reactors. Named after their capacity to produce or "breed" more fuel than they consume, breeders have already been built and operated experimentally; they could, if technical flaws are overcome, help meet U.S. energy needs by the mid-1980s. But other scientists believe that breeders are a direct threat to the environment and to human life. Thus, when President Nixon recently declared that the construction of breeders was an important national goal and authorized work...
Ordinary reactors "burn" uranium 235, which eventually becomes stable lead. Breeders use either U-235 or man-made plutonium for fuel, but also use as a "fertile" material (a nonfissionable substance that absorbs excess neutrons freed in the chain reaction and becomes fissionable) another form of uranium called U-238. In addition to being more common than U-235, this uranium isotope, when struck by a hurtling neutron, does not break apart as does U-235. Instead, it absorbs the particle and is transmuted, by 20th century alchemy, into fissionable plutonium. Thus the breeder's fertile material is gradually...
...Long before ecology became fashionable, a Finnish mink breeder named Emil Hoglund began his drive to protect spotted cats. Finding a mutant female mink with pale brown spots on its white fur, he carefully bred it with a normal mink. After nine years of inbreeding, Hoglund had produced a new strain: a deeply spotted mink with a strong resemblance to the jaguar, which has been hunted to near extinction for its luxurious pelt. Manhattan furrier Reiss & Fabrizio has received the first of the "Fin-Jaguar" furs from the Danish firm Keppo, and has the coats on sale...