Word: fissionability
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...power sources of the future-solar, thermonuclear fusion, geothermal and coal-derived fuels-remain just that: visions for the future, with no certainty that such sources will be available when present reserves of oil and gas go into steep decline. And the use of coal and nuclear-fission power is not expanding nearly rapidly enough to fill the looming energy gap. Hence, the U.S. faces the terrible threat of closed factories and cold, dark homes unless its politicians can master a new kind of challenge: taking painful steps now to grapple with a crisis that will not reach its most...
...several organizations by analyzing each group's response to three common policy areas: Arab unity, the Palestine conflict, and socialism. The emerging picture is one of constant flux--groups coalescing and diverging on one issue or another, sometimes in cooperation and sometimes in combat, multiplying through fusion and fission into a greater variety of political forums...
...Navy expert put it. Before the sub was retrieved, the U.S. knew almost nothing about Soviet torpedo technology. The Navy had also underestimated the sub's firepower. Its short-range (about 700 nautical miles) SSN5 missiles carried hydrogen-bomb warheads packing a much bigger punch than the uranium-fission weapons that were once the staple of Soviet defense. Very possibly one of the warheads was exploded underground before a U.S.-Soviet ban on such testing of bombs of more than 150 kilotons went into effect this year...
Wilson, speaking in favor of establishing nuclear power plants throughout the world, said that electric power produced from nuclear fission energy is less expensive, more efficient, cleaner and safer than power produced from coal or oil energy sources...
...Farber of the University of Florida at Gainesville. "Therefore we must learn to convert solar energy into every kind of energy we use in our daily lives." Nuclear-power proponents would disagree with Farber's philosophy, but concerns over safety and rising costs have slowed the rush toward fission power. Nuclear fusion plants, which promise virtually unlimited power, are probably decades away from becoming a reality...