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...Marshal Pétain before the 1916 Battle of Verdun. This time, however, the attacking army was not only German but also Swiss, Belgian, Italian, Spanish, British and mostly French-perhaps 30,000 demonstrators in all. They were protesting against "Super Phénix," France's giant Plutonium breeder reactor, under construction near Malville, 28 miles east of Lyon...
...little coal, and the 1973 Arab oil boycott dramatically demonstrated French reliance on foreign energy. Since 1974, as a result, the government has organized an ambitious atomic-energy program to provide at least 40 conventional nuclear-power plants and a 1,200-megawatt fast-neutron plant that will breed plutonium fuel from uranium wastes, reducing any necessity for importing North American uranium. Scientists are sharply divided over the dangers that may be inherent in the breeder reactors, and President Carter has halted the U.S. breeder program as risky. The French are nonetheless pressing ahead with their breeder plan, the most...
Drayton joined the Carter staff in June, 1976 to prepare campaign issue papers on "everything from nuclear proliferation and plutonium development to the weakening of the American family," the EPA spokesman said...
...mass of the resulting nuclei and neutrons is somewhat less than the mass of the original nucleus; the missing matter-as predicted by the famed Einstein equation E=mc2-has been converted into energy. Basically, all that is required for fission is the bringing together of enough uranium or plutonium in the right proportions...
...seen lawyers, that unreasonable sentences have been imposed, that Gov. Thomson and the assistant attorney general have twisted the court system to make life difficult for us. Our central concern, however, continues to be nuclear power. The insanity of a national energy economy based on an incredibly toxic carcinogen, plutonium; the public's blindness to the incredible costs of the nuclear fuel cycle, from uranium mining to fuel fabrication to power reactors to reprocessing plants to waste storage; the deliberate suppression of alternate energy sources like wind and solar; a technology that even government sources admit is capable of accidents...