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...harvesting of the valuable food fish on the U.S. and Canadian west coasts. They initialed a Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty, linking their two countries in law enforcement. They also noted that Canada will participate in the $8 billion manned space-station program planned by the U.S. for the mid-1990s. Canada is no stranger to space technology, since Ontario-based Spar Aerospace Ltd. built the mechanical arm used in the U.S. space shuttle...
...company is looking to space as a sort of annex to plants it already has in the U.S. In October 3M announced an ambitious ten-year plan to conduct experiments on 72 shuttle flights through the mid-1990s, right on up to NASA's proposed $8 billion space station. On the ground at its campus-like headquarters in St. Paul, 3M has set up a space research and applications laboratory staffed with 15 chemists, physicists and engineers. The firm will probably spend about $8 million on the project next year, although the operation is so new that the company...
...more powerful rocket engines on the next Ariane, scheduled for 1986, allowing it to handle a payload of 4.2 tons. NASA's plans call for a more modest increase in capacity, to between 1.75 and 2 tons by 1986. In addition, Arianespace officials expect that by the mid-1990s they will be able to place heavy loads with great precision into low orbit, which would be a direct challenge to one of the space shuttle's strengths. Says Roger Vignelles, launch director for the French National Space Agency, a part owner of Arianespace: "I think that...
Opponents and critics of nuclear power are ready to write its obituary. But they are likely to be disappointed. Reports of the industry's death are premature. This year the U.S. will get 13% of its electricity from the atom; by the mid-1990s, according to some estimates, that figure will have risen to about 20%, and nuclear power will be the nation's most important source of electricity after coal...
...silver-white, highly toxic metal needed for each warhead, the Reagan plan will require upwards of 130 tons of weapons-grade plutonium to build the 17,000 or so new warheads that defense specialists estimate will be added to the U.S. nuclear arsenal by the mid-1990s. But according to congressional testimony earlier this year by F. Charles Gilbert, an Energy Department nuclear expert, the lack not only of plutonium but also of tritium, an associated radioactive gas, threatens eventually to present "a serious problem...