Word: nader
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...possibility that this grim scene will become a reality some day is highly remote. But the specter of nuclear catastrophe - energetically raised by Consumerist Ralph Nader and heightened by such books as John Fuller's We Almost Lost Detroit and The Prometheus Crisis by Thomas Scortia and Frank Robinson - has seeped deep into the U.S. consciousness. A growing number of Americans are now more concerned about the consequences of nuclear accidents than they are about the need for nuclear energy. To them, the menace presented by the nation's 56 operating nuclear power plants...
...bane of the nuclear industry," Carl Walske, president of the Atomic Industrial Forum, recently said. The fact that the industry does $10 billion worth of research, development and construction a year (not including the sale of almost 8% of the nation's electricity) hardly fazes Ralph Nader. Addressing an audience of nuclear critics in Washington, B.C., he confidently predicted that nuclear plant construction will be stopped in five years...
...bombs; as little as 22 lbs. is all that is required for a crude fission bomb with the explosive force of 100 tons of TNT. Thus the material must be safeguarded so as not to fall into the hands of terrorists or blackmailers - and this requires tight security regulations. Nader and other critics worry about the unlikely prospect that such security measures would turn the U.S. into a "garrison state," where civil liberties are suppressed...
Ironically, economics may accomplish what Nader and his allies have so far failed to do with their safety campaign: to put a halt to the construction of new nuclear power plants. In the early days of nuclear power, scientists forecast that the electricity from nukes would be "too cheap to meter." Today, points out Nuclear Opponent David Dinsmore Comey, the economic advantage "has turned out to be an illusion...
...Nader also said the "obsolesence of the faculty," was a problem in law schools. It is too easy for the same course to be taught the same way for 20 years, he said...