Word: nationalities
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...particles that rose from the stacks of a nuclear power plant at Pennsylvania's Three Mile Island last March may turn out to be as harmless to humans as many radiologists predict. But the cloud of uncertainty cast over the future of the beleaguered industry by the nation's scariest nuclear accident remains as dark as ever. This week the best-regarded of half a dozen commissions probing the accident will issue a scathing report that raises new questions about the safety of nuclear reactors and makes some important recommendations...
Despite all those woes, there still is a case for keeping nuclear plants in operation and finishing those now abuilding, while rethinking how many more the nation needs in the long run. Until such power sources as solar energy and thermonuclear fusion become commercially feasible, nuclear plants are indispensable. mainly because the alternatives are worse...
...believes that the U.S. should establish a ''nuclear priesthood'' of superbly trained reactor technicians and free them from the supervision of power-company executives. These technicians could shut down a reactor any time the gauges misbehave, without thinking about costs. Weinberg also suggests that the nation investigate whether some types of reactors-the graphite-moderated, gas-cooled kind used in Britain, or Canada's ''Candu,'' cooled by liquid sodium-might be safer than the pressurized-water reactors built by the U.S. industry...
When the nine Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court meet to discuss and vote on cases on Friday mornings, they begin with 'he simple ritual of shaking hands. Then they sit down to decide on some of the nation's most sensitive, sometimes most divisive issues. No reporter, no lobbyist, no aide, not even a messenger is allowed in the paneled conference room. The Justices are left alone to argue the law, their principles, their consciences. Theirs is not an abstract debate: comfortably hazy concepts like ''liberty'' and ''equality'' must...
...appraise the Supreme Court a decade after Warren Burger became Chief Justice, TIME interviewed several of the Justices, dozens of their law clerks, and scholars across the land. One finding: after ten years at the helm of the nation 's highest tribunal, Burger has yet to demonstrate the intellectual or personal persuasion necessary to make him a leader among his highly individualistic brethren. Another: faced with a never-ending array of increasingly complex issues, the court itself is splintered and groping; its decisions often seem inconsistent...