Word: physicist
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...breeder under construction near Beloyarsk in the Urals. They plan to build even more of these reactors, which, to the joy of power planners and the dismay of many others, produce more plutonium than they consume. Indeed, Mikhail Troyanov, a well-respected and tough-minded physicist who serves as deputy director of the Obninsk laboratory, predicts that after 1990 breeders will be the backbone of the Soviet energy system. Says he: "I don't see any difficulties in going to plutonium...
...Police Chief Lavrenti Beria, who was then also head of the Soviet atomic bomb project. Finally released after Stalin's death, he resumed the direction of his own Moscow Institute for Physical Problems, helped promote the idea of an entire city, Akademgorodok, devoted to science and, along with Physicist Andrei Sakharov, became an outspoken champion of intellectual freedom...
...nuclear physicist trained in the '50s, I have been appalled at the low level on which the nuclear energy debate has been conducted. When dozens of workers are killed in an oil refinery explosion, no one suggests that we abandon the use of fossil fuels. When a water pipe in a nuclear reactor develops a hairline fracture, hysteria follows. Nuclear reactor safety is a highly quantitative and technical matter. It is high time that responsible journalism calls for rational discourse...
Chou Pei-Yuan, a physicist and former president of Peking University, is leading the delegation. Ezra F. Vogel, professor of Sociology and director of the East Asian Research Center, said yesterday Chou is "the foremost academic figure in China...
From British-born Robert Massy, a dropout physicist now at California's non conformist University of the Trees, the skeptic is flattered to learn that he has a yellow aura - "a sign of intellect." A friend is told that she has a pinkish glow, which means that she loves people. Archetypal Dowser MacLean, who still works as a chemical engineer in Portland, claims he can divine the arrival of oil tankers even when they are still far beyond the horizon. He adds: "Doesn't make any difference how far the object is if you have the power." California...