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Gerald explains, "This is just an aside, but if you talk to any dog-breeder, he'll tell you that every individual breed of dog has its own disposition or temperament. The analogy to human beings is actually good...
...shortages, environmental wrangles, safety worries. More recently, capital shortages have produced construction stretch-outs, even plant cancellations. As of now, there are 53 active nuclear plants, v. six a decade ago; construction permits have been granted for 63 more plants. Clearly in trouble, though, is the liquid-metal, fast-breeder reactor, which has swallowed the major share of federal energy R. and D. dollars in recent years. Opposition has grown to the breeder and the plutonium it turns out; no accepted way has been found to dispose of the excess radioactive waste...
...thread (sewing is Opal Beihoffer's hobby) for their coat of arms; because marriage and the home are important to the family, they also chose a pair of intertwined rings and a front door (see cut). Says Marketing Manager James Sutton: "We got one request from a swine breeder. He didn't want just any pig, but his breed with its distinctive characteristics on the shield...
Karen Silkwood was a $4-an-hour technician at Kerr-McGee Corp.'s Cimarron River plutonium plant about 30 miles north of Oklahoma City. The facility makes plutonium pellet fuel rods for the breeder reactor, a second-generation nuclear power plant now being developed. Silkwood was one of the most active members of local 5-283 of the Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers Union. She was deeply concerned about how plutonium was handled. And with good reason. Inhalation or swallowing of a few specks of the radioactive element can result in cancer. Exposure to slightly greater quantities can cause...
While U.S. energy requirements can be met by conventional fossil fuels, research and development of alternative sources-solar and thermal energy and the like-should continue apace. Development of the fusion process should be given top priority as a replacement for the breeder reactor, which employs the riskier nuclear fission process...