Word: everly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...begun. Gone was the industry's and government's confidence of old; reappraisal and caution would now be the order of the day. The unthinkable had come perilously close to happening, causing second thoughts about the form of energy that promises to relieve dependence on ever diminishing, ever more expensive fossil fuel supplies...
...midst of the tempestuous, untamed streaming of the world," so far removed from most human want and anguish. That has not changed much over the past decades. But now it is changing. Scarcity is catching us, and we would probably be one of the first nuclear battlegrounds if restraint ever fractured...
MORE IMMEDIATELY, though, we must be concerned with how to proceed in the effort to meet this nation's ever-expanding appetite for fuel. The President seems committed to the further development of nuclear power. He said this week we cannot "abandon the nuclear supply of energy in our country, in the for seeable future." His assessment is not astonishing, when cities like Chicago get almost half their electricity from nuclear plants and the nation as a whole gets 12 to 13 per cent of its electricity from reactors...
...Three Mile Island accident. The NRC would like to ignore the possibility of structural and design defects in the current plants. Wednesday, the NRC said human errors rather than mechanical failures were chiefly responsible for the Middletown problems. The statement is just the latest in a series of ever-changing assessments which have identified from one to three human and mechanical mishaps as causes for the accident. And each report cites a different combination of problems...
MANY SCIENTISTS contend that nuclear power never can be made acceptably safe. Other experts assert that reactors are already safe enough, or at least reasonably close to such a level. But even if reactors are safe, the admittedly ever-present risk of human error may prove reason enough for serious objection to and possibly abstention from use of nuclear power...