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...keep selling the materials to Tarapur, contending that refusing to do so would not stop the spread of atomic bombs-and possibly could allow just the opposite. At least, the Administration argued, the U.S. could be sure that the uranium supplied to Tarapur was not being reprocessed into plutonium for bombs. But if the U.S. did not supply additional fuel, India might regard the 1963 agreement as canceled, close Tarapur as well as its other reactors to inspection, and do whatever it pleased with the spent U.S. uranium already there. Thus a turndown on the sale might speed up rather...
...badly needed elsewhere in this world, and the dangerous potential for escalation inherent in any attempt to match the Soviet Union item for item in every aspect of military spending. In addition, the environmental hazards posed by the manufacture of nerve gas would seem to mirror those currently plaguing plutonium production. Those who argue that the new binary systems will be "safe" are not supported by past experience with hazardous materials...
...provided by Canada. The test helped spur Congress to pass the Nuclear Nonproliferation Act of 1978, which was signed by Carter. It requires that nations using nuclear fuel supplied by the U.S. allow on-site inspections to make certain that waste products are not being reprocessed into weapons-grade plutonium. Despite two years of negotiations with Washington, New Delhi has refused to allow inspections of all its plants...
...House committee vote but thought that they had a narrow chance in the Senate. Muskie argued at a closed-door hearing that canceling the sale would damage relations with India. Moreover, the Administration noted, New Delhi would be encouraged to reprocess its spent uranium into new fuel, with plutonium as a byproduct...
...initial work, Reines, 62, a researcher at the University of California in Irvine, had measured the flow of neutrinos, or more precisely anti-neutrinos (their antimatter twins), in the streams of particles coming from a nuclear reactor at the Government's Savannah River weapons-grade plutonium plant. This time, Reines, joined by Physicists Henry W. Sobel and Elaine Pasierb, faced a more complicated task. By now neutrinos were believed to come in at least three varieties, or "flavors": one associated with electrons, the two others with larger particles called muons and taus...