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NUCLEAR PACT. In June 1975, West Germany signed a $4.7 billion agreement to sell Brazil a complete nuclear-fuel facility. The package provides for cooperation on uranium exploration and mining, supplies of nuclear fuel to Germany, and construction by German firms of eight nuclear-reactor plants, a fuel-fabrication plant and a nuclear fuel-reprocessing plant...
Beyond the financial benefits, the deal was important to Bonn because it offered a potentially steady supply of reactor fuels to West Germany. The U.S. protested that two of the installations -the fuel-fabrication plant and the reprocessing plant-could be used by Brazil to develop its own nuclear weapons potential. Brazil has not signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty...
...poses a cluster of complex problems-financial, political, technical and environmental. Though some imported gas is now seeping in from distant points, and efforts are under way to bring in more, it will probably be five years at least before any appreciable supplies of such fuel enter the U.S. to help warm homes and run factories. Even then the amount is unlikely to fill more than a small fraction of U.S. demand...
Giant Fireball. A key problem is that the wildly expensive technology needed to ship gas over water requires long start-up times and makes the fuel extremely costly to import. For example, Algeria, which has taken the lead in trying to boost exports to the U.S., is spending billions of dollars to build six liquefaction plants, but they are not expected to be fully operational for a decade. These facilities freeze the fuel into liquid natural gas (LNG), which is then loaded on specially constructed tankers that cost up to $150 million each...
...years, has long been one of NASA's goals. But using conventional space-flight techniques to rendezvous and keep up with the glowing visitor-which reaches speeds of 198,000 kilometers (124,000 miles) an hour as it approaches the sun-would require enormous amounts of fuel and an impractically large and expensive rocket...