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Dates: during 1980-1989
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OSCAR AND LUCINDA by Peter Carey. Two decidedly odd young Victorians, both addicted to gambling, meet by accident and hatch an improbable plan: to build a glass cathedral and put it in the Australian outback...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Best of '88: Books | 1/2/1989 | See Source »

...primary purpose of the $3.6 billion nuclear plant that the U.S. Department of Energy wants to build in Idaho Falls, Idaho, is to help replenish America's dwindling supply of tritium, a vital component in atom bombs. But if approved by Congress, the Idaho facility could play an even more important role in the civilian use of nuclear power. For it is based on what proponents claim is a fail-safe technology, one that virtually eliminates the danger of a meltdown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Planet Of The Year: Nuclear Power Plots a Comeback | 1/2/1989 | See Source »

What makes the failure all the more disturbing is that it was unnecessary. Engineers have the know-how to build reactors that are demonstrably safer than those now in operation. Moreover, that basic technology has been available for more than 20 years. It was largely ignored in favor of a technology -- the water-cooled reactor -- that had already been proved in nuclear submarines. But water-cooled reactors are particularly susceptible to the rapid loss of coolant, which led to the accidents at both Chernobyl and Three Mile Island...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Planet Of The Year: Nuclear Power Plots a Comeback | 1/2/1989 | See Source »

...safety are built into a conventional reactor, it can never be 100% safe against a meltdown. At its Idaho plant, the Energy Department wants to try a different strategy. Rather than construct a giant atomic pile that requires the cooling of large quantities of concentrated fuel, designers propose to build a series of four small-scale, modular reactors that use fuel in such small quantities that their cores could not achieve meltdown temperatures under any circumstances. The fuel would be packed inside tiny heat-resistant ceramic spheres and cooled by inert helium gas. Then the whole apparatus would be buried...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Planet Of The Year: Nuclear Power Plots a Comeback | 1/2/1989 | See Source »

...acre every 16 minutes, has already drawn up an ambitious mix of programs. In the biggest project, a $24 million pumping station would divert millions of gallons of silt-rich Mississippi River water onto the coastline to help stop saltwater intrusion and to supply sediment that will build up the eroding land. At least one parish is considering plans for a backstop dike to give residents time to escape should the sea finally reach their doors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Planet Of The Year: Preparing for The Worst | 1/2/1989 | See Source »

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