Word: nuclear
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...called "the experience of a lifetime." The crowd was there to hear chemistry's new superstar, B. Stanley Pons, describe and defend the experiment that had catapulted him and British colleague Martin Fleischmann to instant fame only a few weeks earlier. Pons and Fleischmann claim to have produced controlled nuclear fusion in a jar at room temperature. If Pons, a professor at the University of Utah, and Fleischmann, of the University of Southampton in England, are correct, and if the process can be harnessed economically on a large scale, the world's energy problems are over...
...Navy has its way, the Trident nuclear-submarine base at Bangor, Wash., will soon be guarded by an uncanny underwater-surveillance system. Vastly more powerful than the Navy's most sophisticated sonar, it can identify real threats to the base, distinguishing them from the normal cacophony of noise in the cold, murky waters of Puget Sound. Developed at a cost of nearly $30 million, it can spot and tag intruding divers, making it possible for them to be intercepted, and can outmaneuver any underwater machine. Yet just about the only maintenance required is 20 lbs. of fish...
...that moving the dolphins from their homes in warm southern waters to the chilly Puget Sound will endanger the animals. Moreover, one of their former trainers asserts that the Navy has abused the dolphins. Still other critics question the wisdom of entrusting the security of the nation's underwater nuclear arsenal to animals, however clever...
Some researchers claim that a breakthrough in nuclear physics has taken place, but experiments at other laboratories are yielding results that are confusing at best...
NATURE: Guarding nuclear submarines with dolphins...