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...efficiency of the breeder is worth the risk," Meyer said. Pindyck said the breeder reactor would not be as economically efficient as Meyer contended...
Meyer said he supported increased funding for the construction of "light-water" nuclear reactors and for the development of an efficient breeder reactor. Breeder reactors consume uranium and produce plutonium, which can then fuel other nuclear reactors...
...coal, and 3) de-emphasis of nuclear power. Both Carter and Schlesinger (a former chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, among his other credits) agree that nuclear power is too expensive and too vulnerable on the safety issue. In his budget, Carter has cut $200 million from the fast-breeder reactor program. One reason: such reactors produce plutonium, which can be used by any nation -friend or foe-to make atomic bombs...
There is also prison loneliness, which, Cheever writes with painful accuracy, "can change anything on earth." Farragut, previously a dog breeder, becomes attached to a jailhouse cat. Farragut, previously a heterosexual, falls in love with a fellow prisoner. Loneliness can change anything...
Some playwrights have too few ideas -or none at all. John Guare (House of Blue Leaves) is of a rarer kind: his mind is a virtual breeder reactor of dramatic themes large and small. In Marco Polo Sings a Solo, a comedy now playing at Manhattan's Public Theater, Guare's reactor has run away from him. Ideas meet, collide and cancel one another out, like so many errant atoms, and his play explodes in a dozen directions...