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...implications of cold fusion are enormous. The supply of deuterium is virtually limitless. Unlike ordinary fission reactors, a cold-fusion plant would produce very little radiation and no radioactive waste, and it wouldn't produce the chemical pollutants and greenhouse gasses created by burning coal...
...upgrade safety systems -- with partially irradiated tritium still in its core. In August technicians, oblivious to the decaying radioactive material inside, tried to restart the reactor but were unable to keep it going. The next day they tried again. Ignoring procedure, they set off an abnormal jump in nuclear fission, usually a sign of imminent trouble. Workers ignored the warning, forcing plant officials to intervene to shut down the reactor...
Though it is essential for the U.S. to cultivate domestic energy sources and know-how, current spending is excessive. The research-and-developme nt budgets for nuclear fission and fossil fuels could be cut by two-thirds. In addition, the U.S. should reduce funding for rural electrification and remove subsidies on the sale of federally generated power...
...Senior Administration officials close to the negotiations say the capability claimed by the Soviets is based on familiar, not revolutionary technology. The Soviet proposal is to approach suspect vessels by helicopter or ship and bombard them with high-energy neutrons emitted by portable particle accelerators. These neutrons would provoke fission reactions within any nuclear warheads on board and release detectable streams of neutron and gamma-ray emissions. The scheme is feasible, say U.S. experts, but could be foiled by shielding the warheads with thick layers of water and wax. "We looked at that technology very, very carefully a couple...
...step-pyramid, the site of Osiris' burial but also, by implication, a nuclear reactor. Osiris' body parts are ceramic fragments scattered at the base, each wired by bright copper cable to his ka, or soul, at the summit of the mastaba, represented by a circuit board. Death and integration: fission and fusion. Through such metaphors, Kiefer sets forth images charged with warning and suffused with hope...