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...also requested, in a move of dubious legality, a list of department employees who are members of environmental groups. Although the Secretary might award himself an A for effort and many developers grade him A for achievement, others flunk him cold for his insensitive attitude toward conservation and his megawatt manner in dealing with controversy. Because it is not yet clear if his policies will improve the economy or endanger the environment, or both, he gets...
...heart of the Clinch River debate are not its finances but its technology; the 375-megawatt plant to be built is a breeder reactor, which creates more atomic fuel than it burns. The physics behind this alchemy is not new. A few light bulbs were powered by the first tiny breeder 30 years ago, and a 200-MW breeder plant was fired up-and failed-near Detroit in 1966. Conventional nuclear reactors also create fuel, but about 35% less than they consume, rather than, like breeders, about 20% more. Says A. David Rossin of the American Nuclear Society: "Breeder reactors...
...Three Mile Island incident, other industrialized nations are moving rapidly in the field of nuclear power. The most aggressive program now belongs to France, which plans to draw 75% of its electricity from the atom by 1990. In 1983 France will complete work on its massive 1,200-megawatt Super Phenix, the country's second fast-breeder reactor. France also leads in developing types of nuclear-waste disposal technology...
...company's proposed 1,100 megawatt plant -- dubbed Pilgrim II after the 650-megawatt Pilgrim I plant, also in Plymouth -- is pending before the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. No other plants are proposed or under construction in the state...
...WISCASSET, THE PRETTIEST LITTLE VILLAGE IN MAINE. So reads the sign on U.S. 1 outside the coastal community (pop. 2,244) with its neat houses and manicured lawns. Across Sheepscot Bay, on Bailey Point, is a more modern symbol of Maine: the gray concrete dome of the 830-megawatt Maine Yankee nuclear power plant, which for eight years has provided 30% of the state's electricity. The facility last week was the subject of the first referendum in the U.S. on whether an operating nuclear power plant should be shut down...