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...Nigeria in the long-term. And domestic off-shore drilling threatens not to live up to its promise. So, do we need a crash program to develop synthetic fuels? Coal is plentiful, but is it clean enough to be the electricity of the future? Are nuclear power, fusion and fission going to have a role in the next 20 years? And what should the government be spending to foster such research? These questions of supply, though hard to answer now, could have been more adroitly presented since in all likelihood they will have to be faced...
...from U.T. officials to hire other top specialists in elementary-particle theory. Says Weinberg, 48: "I'm trying to build up a group of theoretical physicists, and I'm being given the resources to do it." At U.T. he joined Physicist John Wheeler, 70, the distinguished nuclear-fission expert who came to Austin in 1976 after 38 years at Princeton, and Marshall Rosenbluth, 55, a leading plasma physicist. Rosenbluth was lured away from Princeton when U.T. pledged a cool $5 million for five years to establish an institute for fusion studies...
...design and refine the contingency plans?about whether those plans would work if put to the test of reality. Many fear that the detonation of even one nuclear weapon in a conflict would be like firing a particle into the nucleus of an atom; nuclear war would mimic nuclear fission. The result would be a chain reaction of chaos and cataclysm, warheads flying back and forth with increasing recklessness and ultimately random, total destruction...
Hsieh said yesterday that as an immediate solution to the energy shortage, he supports the use of coal and nuclear fission--the process employed in most nuclear power plants around the world--while in the long run he favors the development of nuclear fusion, which would drastically reduce the amount of waste generated by nuclear plants...
...should use fission and coal to lessen our dependence on imported oil, and at the same time, we should try and develop fusion energy as a future energy source," said Hsieh, who received the scholarship in July...