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Security systems for future nuclear plants should be planned to prevent terrorists from stealing their nuclear fuel and building nuclear bombs, a Harvard professor said yesterday...
...group of a dozen skilled people could make a nuclear bomb when pure materials are available," Wilson said in a New York Times opinion-page article on January 3. But he said few United States reactors use fuel pure enough to make a nuclear bomb...
...against admitting the Concorde. At that hearing, Coleman promised to make a decision by early February. His choice will not be easy. A ruling in favor of the Concorde would bring down the wrath of environmentalists, who charge that the craft is too noisy, burns too much fuel and is a threat to the ozone layer. A decision to bar the plane would be considered an unfriendly act by the British and French and could sour U.S. relations with both countries...
...before the two countries can make back their development costs. A major reason for the dim sales prospects is the Concorde's operating cost. The plane seats a maximum of 140 passengers (v. an average of 370 in the 747) and burns two to three times as much fuel per seat mile as subsonic planes. To compensate for the added operating cost, Concorde passengers will have to pay at least 20% more than equivalent first-class fares on subsonic jets...
...blows out of the tailpipe (see diagram). In order to get as much nitrogen oxide out of the exhaust as they must by 1978, however, the carmakers will have to resort to lower combustion temperatures, reduced compression ratios and other engine modifications. Those changes, they say, will cut into fuel economy, currently a prime concern of motorists. Critics contend that the industry should never have put its main reliance on the catalytic converter in the first place, but should have concentrated on engine modifications long...