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Shortly after his appointment in 1985, Secretary of Energy John Herrington established an internal DOE team, known as the "junkyard dogs," to look into safety problems at federal nuclear facilities. After the Soviet Union's Chernobyl disaster in 1986, Herrington turned to the National Academy of Sciences to assess the situation in South Carolina. An academy panel concluded last year that DOE was torn by the "conflicting responsibilities" of meeting production quotas while maintaining safety. Operation of the facilities, it said, had been left in the hands of "largely self-regulated contractors," while safety oversight was "ingrown and largely outside...
...summit with OPEC. While some of the biggest producers declined to participate (among them Britain, the Soviet Union and the U.S.), the meeting was a somewhat threatening development for oil-gulping countries. That includes the U.S. as a whole, which imports 37% of its daily consumption. Energy Secretary John Herrington, on a seven-nation swing through Southeast Asia, was inspired to lecture non-OPEC countries that the Reagan Administration was opposed to any manipulation of the price of oil. He told TIME, "The efforts to establish a worldwide cartel will end in failure...
Energy Secretary John Herrington will announce the preferred site next summer. A major hurdle remains, however: following last week's elimination of 17 states, proponents fear that congressional enthusiasm for the project may collide with efforts to reduce the budget...
...eleven-point plan that ranged from the promise of $150 million in Defense Department funds over the next three years to the relaxation of antitrust laws so that firms may collaborate on projects. Recalling remarks by Frank Press, president of the National Academy of Sciences, Energy Secretary John Herrington declared, "Superconductivity has become the test case of whether the U.S. has a technological future...
...superconductors to $40 million; it is also compiling a computerized database that will enable American scientists to keep up to date on fast-breaking superconductor research results, and will co-sponsor a White House conference on superconductivity this summer. "It's a monumental subject," says Energy Secretary John Herrington. "It ranks up there with the laser." In the Senate, Minnesota Republican David Durenberger has co-sponsored a bill calling on the President to form a national commission to coordinate superconductivity research and development. Says Durenberger: "We cannot stand idly by while Japan targets another industry for industrial supremacy." Last week...