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...little too quickly, it seems. According to a report by the Energy Department's inspector general made public last week, the DOE not only failed to locate the missing tritium but never adequately addressed the possibility that the gas was stolen. In a sharply worded statement that raises questions about what exactly the Government has been doing for the past five months, the inspector general said that earlier explanations attributing the losses to procedural errors or mismeasurements were based more on "speculation than fact." More than a year after the first shortfalls occurred, the report charges, "basic questions concerning...
Until recently, it was the problem of tritium replenishment that concerned most nuclear experts. Last year the DOE was forced to shut down its only source of tritium, the aging Savannah River nuclear weapons plant in South Carolina, when the reactors there developed cracks and other safety problems. The risk that the U.S.'s nuclear arsenal might soon run out of gas provoked long and acrimonious debates in Congress. In the midst of that controversy word came that the DOE had been making millions of dollars a year by selling surplus tritium overseas. Some of the gas, it was revealed...
...inspector general's report, none of the probes seriously pursued the possibility of illegal diversion. Experts say that although the material was packed in sealed containers, it was sent by commercial carrier and did not receive the special safeguards used for shipments of plutonium or enriched uranium. Last week's report urged a fresh investigation and a tightening of procedures. Critics welcomed the recommendations but wondered why they came so late. Asked Congressman Edward Markey of Massachusetts, who released the report to the press: "Do we have to wait until Pakistan, Libya or South Africa announce they have...
Talk about timing. With presidential elections just two weeks away, Silvio Santos, 58, one of Brazil's most popular television variety-show hosts, last week proclaimed himself a candidate. The startling announcement might have seemed laughable -- were Santos' challenge not so serious to the three leading contenders. If none of the candidates gets an absolute majority, the two leading candidates go forward from the first round of balloting on Nov. 15 to the runoff vote on Dec. 17. Within two days of Santos' announcement, newspaper polls showed the upstart candidate alternately in first and second place -- meaning...
...almost 50 years, the Soviets have blamed the Germans for the Katyn massacre, despite evidence pointing unmistakably to Stalin's secret police, the NKVD. Last week a prominent American visitor rendered his own verdict. At the foot of the monument, he placed a bouquet of red roses bearing a handwritten message penned in both Polish and English: "For the victims of Stalin and the NKVD. Zbigniew Brzezinski...