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...National Research Council too (NRC) has been studying this technology for years. Dr. John Swets, who headed a 1988 NRC investigation of accelerated learning for the U.S. Army, concludes that the "neurolinguistic perception" (NLP) goggles and headphones--which centers such as Visconti's use--have little scientific proof of their effectiveness...
According to Swets, many of the researchers from whom Visconti compiles evidence are discredited by the NRC. Two of these people who Visconticites are mind researcher Tony Buzan and Rumanian "suggestopedia" theorizer Dr. Georgi Lozanov. Suggestopedia, says Lozanov, increases at least 25 times our memorization abilities...
...Ontario, some 40 miles northwest of Syracuse, was shut down safely with no release of radiation, critics are demanding that the plant be closed for good. Until June, Nine Mile Point had been on the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's list of troubled plants. Last week a team from the NRC began an investigation of the shutdown. Said NRC spokesman Joseph Fouchard: "We've got a lot of work...
Fueling these worries is a new rule, scheduled to be enacted in June by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, that would stretch the legal life-span of many atomic plants to 60 years. Although the NRC says it will ensure that the industry addresses age-related issues, some scientists charge that the agency's safety guidelines are not stringent enough to prevent catastrophic accidents. Forty years ago, "these nuclear plants, after concerted study, were granted a finite number of years to operate," says M.I.T. physicist Henry Kendall, who shared a Nobel Prize last year for discovering subatomic particles called quarks...
...NRC hearing last September, Neal Randall, one of the agency's engineers, testified that based on worst-case calculations, he believed the "Yankee Rowe vessel is quite brittle" and was therefore unsafe to operate even for the remainder of its license. The precise extent of the problem is uncertain because the utility has run out of easily accessible test samples of the original steel used in building the vessel. Ideally, such samples are periodically examined for hidden cracks, allowing scientists to determine how much embrittlement has occurred. Although Randall's opinion was a minority view, it electrified the plant...