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...scuttling of Marble Hill was the latest in a long series of setbacks facing the nuclear power industry. Just three days earlier, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission refused to grant an operating license to the nearly completed $3.4 billion Byron nuclear power station near Rockford, Ill. Regulators said they had "no confidence" in the quality-control procedures for some of the plant's construction. The NRC's move was unprecedented in the commission's history and was more surprising because Byron's operator, Chicago's Commonwealth Edison, is regarded as the most experienced atomic power generator...
...Byron and Marble Hill decisions seemed to spark a chain reaction of anxiety about the costs of nuclear power. Cincinnati's city council called on Cincinnati Gas & Electric to abandon plans to complete the Zimmer nuclear plant, which has been plagued by mismanagement and safety lapses. Zimmer, budgeted at $240 million when it was proposed in 1969, has already cost some $1.4 billion and is not expected to be completed until 1986, eleven years behind schedule. Taking this into account, CG&E and the other two power companies building Zimmer announced at week's end that they will...
Because the early hours in orbit are critical in judging human reaction to weightlessness, the scientist-astronauts got a fast start on their biomedical program. They took blood samples from one another (Payload Specialist Byron Lichtenberg, as the chief bloodletter, became known as "the vampire"), underwent eye tests, lifted steel balls, were flung around in a sledlike contraption called a body-restraint system, and even endured electric shocks. Not surprisingly, the orbital guinea pigs complained that the tests were making them ill, although the torture had a medical purpose: to learn more about the nausea, headaches and general lethargy, known...
Monitoring the experiments is a new breed of scientist-astronauts called payload specialists. On Spacelab's maiden voyage, they are Ulf Merbold, 42, a West German physicist whose specialty is the behavior of materials at low temperatures, and Byron Lichtenberg, 35, a biomedical engineer from M.I.T. and Brown University with a particular interest in solving the problem of motion sickness that has afflicted so many astronauts...
...Supreme Court, Justice Byron White, who oversees the Fifth Circuit, was standing by for a possible new plea in the Autry case. While the circuit court's opinion was being read into a Supreme Court tape recorder, Alvin Bronstein, executive director of the A.C.L.U.'s National Prison Project, was sitting in the lobby writing out in longhand an application to stay the execution. As he wrote, the lights flickered on and off, a consequence of the drain on the building's electrical system caused by the refrigeration of historic documents in glass cases in the lobby. Only...