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...wants them to hold a briefing for reporters on the decision to cancel two breeder-reactor projects that Carter had mentioned to Senators Glenn, Ribicoff and Percy. "It might reassure [Japanese Premier Takeo] Fukuda and [West German Chancellor Helmut] Schmidt to understand that we are making distinctions between our own situation and theirs," Carter says...
Scientists have a cute name for it: "ploot." But plutonium, a man-made element created by bombarding uranium 238 with neutrons, has awesome properties. On the plus side, fast-breeder nuclear reactors, which are generally fueled with plutonium and U-238, can not only generate electricity but also produce more plutonium fuel than they consume. On the other hand, plutonium, even in tiny quantities, is searingly radioactive and ranks with botulin toxin as one of the world's most poisonous substances. Moreover, with as little as 12 Ibs. of plutonium, the right equipment and expertise in handling the stuff...
...major part of the solution to the U.S. energy shortage. Not so. Apparently frightened about the possibility of reactor byproducts falling into the hands of irresponsible governments or bomb-building terrorists, Carter has already chopped $200 million from Ford's leftover budget for the development of advanced breeder reactors, which produce bomb-grade plutonium even as they produce energy. The Schlesinger program will call for a modest acceleration in the building of present fission reactors and will place great emphasis on safety precautions. But it will also call for a standardized design intended to speed construction. Owing...
...fired him in February 1976. Informed of his risky friendships, Traube's bosses told him that West Germany's controversial nuclear energy program would suffer if word of his social life leaked to the press while he was still running Interatom's program for developing fast-breeder reactors. Not content with a comfortable financial settlement, Traube demanded a federal investigation and instead received a letter exonerating him of any wrongdoing. Nonetheless, he was unable to regain his job-or a position that he particularly wanted with JET, the inter-European nuclear power project. There the matter stood...
Pindyck and Kenneth J. Arrow, Conant University Professor, said commercial breeder reactors should not be constructed...