Word: cent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Because the nation's 72 nuclear reactors now supply 13 per cent of the United States' electrical energy, we cannot abruptly shut them down without substantial power shortages. However, in light of the panel's conclusions, advocates of nuclear energy should begin looking to other alternatives for solutions to the present energy crisis...
...assume the responsibility for having our people take the risks in a system which is not properly regulated," List said. Then last week, South Carolina Gov. Richard W. Riley cut in half the volume of wastes accepted by his state's Barnwell disposal facility, which handles 85 per cent of the nation's commercial radioactive sludge. It wasn't the first time that the three sites had been shut down, but when they all went at once, people began to worry...
Carter's hesitancy to recommend a course of action is not really surprising, however. After all, nobody wants to be the person to start the national battle over whose backyard should have which nuclear dump--especially in an election year. In the Northeast, which generates about 40 per cent of the nation's radioactive waste but has no disposal sites, state governments have followed the federal lead, skillfully avoiding the problem...
...However, people are going to read about saving money through conservation and just naturally vote yes," Smith says. He adds that the city has a 52-per-cent "dependence on the nukes...
Election workers begin by sorting the ballots by first choice vote. If any candidate receives over a certain quota of first choice votes (set by tradition at ten per cent of the total vote), he is automatically declared a winner. Two years ago, only one candidate, Walter Sullivan, managed this feat on the first round...