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...total energy consumption, and nuclear reactors supply 23%. According to government projections, by the year 2000, nuclear power will provide 30% of the country's energy, and petroleum only 27%. Some time this year France will start up Super-Phénix, the world's first commercial breeder reactor. Using advanced nuclear technology, it will be able to produce 60 times as much energy from a given amount of uranium as the present generation of reactors...
...their time to constituents' requests, no matter how outlandish. A hog-farm operator, for example, kept after his representative for months to find him a hotel that would deliver him its leftover food, gratis, for his swine. The politician finally delivered and thus earned the unshakable support of the breeder...
Despite a national controversy about nuclear power, the Japanese are building a prototype breeder reactor and experimental fusion devices as large as any under construction in the U.S. Experiments are under way to tap the abundant geothermal energy of Japan's volcanoes. In seismology, the Japanese are aggressively looking for early warning signals in their tremulous terrain. Though initially dependent on help from NASA, Japan's space agency is now launching satellites with its own rockets, and will attempt to intercept Halley's comet when that celestial object races around the sun in 1986; similar U.S. plans...
...whole, the 150 gators in the farm's breeder lake rarely seem to mind his intrusion; and after three years of cataloguing by computer some 800 courtship sequences and isolating about 40 specific behavioral acts, Vliet has come to have more sympathy for the creatures. If it is difficult for a nonspecialist to tell male gators from females, it can apparently be hard for the gators too. To examine prospective mates, they slowly bump nose-to-nose or nose-to-head-and-neck, or else try submerging each other in a lugubrious contest of love. "I can swim...
...price this year was $135,000, paid by Howard Kale for a chestnut mare named Parcha. Breeder and Trader Robijn den Hartog of The Netherlands was the show's major buyer. He says he spent $355,300 for 14 Tersk Arabians. About one-third of the horses sold went to Americans. Some of the rest may eventually be resold to other breeders in the U.S. Before entering the country, the horses must be checked for piroplasmosis, a blood disorder common among Tersk stock. The U.S. will not admit horses that have...