Word: forded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Regulation of reactors began under the Atomic Energy Commission, set up in 1946 shortly after the first atomic bomb fell on Japan. The AEC had the job of both promoting and safeguarding the development of atomic power. In 1974 President Gerald Ford signed a bill splitting the AEC into two agencies with separate functions: the Energy Research and Development Administration, which encourages the growth of nuclear power, and the NRC, which is concerned with safety...
...fuels now available, only coal is abundant and cheap enough to substitute for nuclear power. But it is dangerous to mine and dirty to burn. One study sponsored by the Ford Foundation estimates that a new coal-fired plant meeting current environmental standards produces two to 25 fatalities a year. In addition, there is the threat of the "greenhouse effect," the possibility that all-out burning of coal would pour so much carbon dioxide into the air as to keep heat from escaping out of the atmosphere into space. Theoretical consequences that some scientists like to cite: warming...
SITING. A Ford Foundation-sponsored study indicates that a nuclear ac cident at a poorly chosen site-one close to a heavily populated area or at a location where winds would carry radioactive particles toward big cities-would cause 1,000 times more damage to life and property than a mishap at a more remote spot...
...writes Gerald Ford of Richard Nixon in his memoirs, A Time to Heal, which will be published by Harper & Row in late May or June. The Nation magazine obtained a 655-page typescript of the book ("Somebody dropped off a copy," explained Editor Victor Navasky) and printed portions of the work last week.* The sampling contained no major revelations of the Ford years but did add illuminating detail and indicated that Ford has a harsher view of his predecessor than he had previously disclosed...
...Crimson, freshman Betsy Richmond easily captured the first singles competition, blasting Faith Wilcox 6-1, 6-0, with a steady baseline game. Playing at number two, Roberts downed Katherine Ford 6-0, 6-1, and Meg Meyer continued the hit parade, shutting out her opponent, 6-0, 6-0, to take the number three singles...