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...bound to be controversial. For example, it does not even consider sabotage as a cause of nuclear accidents, a possibility that especially troubles Ralph Nader. Nor does it investigate the additional risk of accident involved in the new generation of gas-cooled reactors or the next generation of fast-breeder reactors. In addition, anti-nuclear critics like the Union of Concerned Scientists in Cambridge, Mass., vow to scrutinize WASH-1400 for any oversimplification, any error in calculation or method that might discredit the work...
...other big money item in the R. and D. budget is the breeder reactor, the machine that will produce energy in the next generation of nuclear (fission) power plants. This promising device, which creates (or breeds) slightly more fuel than it consumes, has been heavily funded ever since Nixon called for its fast development in 1971. Though other nations-most notably the U.S.S.R.-have prototype breeders, the U.S. does not. Its breeder program now gets $365.6 million a year. Next year, the report says, that amount should jump to $515.5 million, and a total of $2.8 billion should...
...these, but curiously - Wilson, after all, is now 60 - it reads more like the early Waugh-Huxley novel the author never got to write. In spirit it may well be his most youthful book. As with Huxley, there is an "idea" at bottom. Hamo Langmuir, a famous British plant breeder, is off on a VIP tour to see how his hybrid rice, nicknamed "Magic," is faring as England's gift to the Green Revolution. Hamo's goddaughter, Alexandra, is following rather the same route. Hers is the sort of pilgrimage 21-year-old girls from middle-class Anglo...
...BREEDER REACTORS. These devices, which will actually create more fuel than they consume, "are probably even safer than today's generation of reactors. We are complying with a court order to do a complete environmental study of the breeder, though it's hard to do. The breeder should be an important source of energy, but we need to develop other sources, too, in a multifaceted approach to energy problems...
...Miller, another hog farmer, as he leans against the fence. "What's conformation? If you see a girl walking down the street, and she walks pretty good, and she has good lines, and you just want to grab her, well, that's conformation." Miller later spots a breeder boar with good conformation and buys...