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...long ago have been washed away.) Even if the salt were cracked by heat from radioactive materials, the rupture would tend to close itself, a self-healing characteristic of salt not found in, say, granitic or volcanic rock masses, which are also being investigated as radioactive refuse sites. Says Physicist Neal Carter of the Battelle Memorial Institute in Columbus, Ohio, which is studying the problem of nuclear-waste disposal: "We've concluded that salt domes are fully capable of containing radioactivity...
Saying he will announce his plans when the Soviets formally charge the group, which includes physicist and dissident leader Victor Brailovsky. Dershowitz said he will help the prisoners in whatever way the government will permit him. But he added that he is "not optimistic" he will be allowed to attend the trial...
...about 50 scientists from 13 nations, members of the International Geophysical Year rocket and satellite conference, were gathered at a cocktail party when the New York Times's Walter Sullivan was tugged away to the phone. He returned with a startled look on his face and whispered to Physicist Lloyd Berkner, who then rapped for silence on the hors d'oeuvre table. "I wish to make an announcement," he told the group. "I am informed that a satellite is in orbit at an elevation of 900 km. I wish to congratulate our Soviet colleagues on their achievement...
Uspensky bitterly recalls life at the camp. The inmates included scientists and high school teachers, agronomists and doctors. One of the friends he made there, a nuclear physicist, received a Nobel nomination three years ago. "They were splendid people who did marvelous work--people who deserved to be honored by their government, not punished by it," he says. The wardens were hard to distinguish from common criminals...
...some scientists think that railguns, firing a stream of high-velocity particles at a target of deuterium and tritium, may offer the best way yet of achieving controlled fusion, a key energy hope for the future. Perhaps the most far-reaching application involves the space colonization ideas of Princeton Physicist Gerard O'Neill. He and some colleagues at M.I.T. are already building models of kindred electromagnetic launchers that they believe could be assembled on the moon and used to propel tons of lunar ores into space for construction of solar-powered space habitats...