Word: reactor
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...York State's Carborundum Co. had sold the chemical boron carbide to two prime contractors that were building nuclear reactor cores. Rickover said the company had made a 25% profit on these sales. The GAO agreed...
...arms, has been obliged to increase its economic involvement with the Soviet bloc. Against the advice of many of its own experts, for example, the Syrian national airline recently decided to buy Soviet-made Tupolev airliners. A Syrian contract with the French to build an experimental nuclear reactor has been handed to the Soviets. Similarly, a $200 million Syrian deal with a Western consortium to build a major electrical generating plant was transferred to Moscow. Most diplomats feel that if given a choice, Assad would rather keep his business dealings in the West. The problem is that for the time...
...permits states to regulate the economic aspects of nuclear power-issues such as land use, rate making and the need for electricity-and allows the Federal Government to retain complete control of the safety aspects. Because the absence of permanent nuclear-waste dumps could lead to reactor shutdowns and disruption of electric service, said the court, the California statute rightfully protects the state's role as an economic arbiter of nuclear power. "The legal reality," wrote Justice Byron White, "remains that Congress has left sufficient authority in the states to allow the development of nuclear power to be slowed...
...nuclear power industry could also take heart from another Supreme Court ruling last week: the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) need not consider the psychological effects on local residents of reopening the undamaged reactor at the Three Mile Island nuclear facility near Harrisburg, Pa. The plant's other reactor had broken down on March 28, 1979; neither has been operating since. Leaders of People Against Nuclear Energy (PANE), the citizens group that challenged the startup, were disappointed but vowed to continue their fight. With NRC approval, however, Metropolitan Edison Co., which operates the plant, hopes to reopen the unharmed reactor...
...residents are battling over the reopening of an undamaged unit on the island. That reactor, shut down for refueling when the accident struck its sister plant, has remained closed ever since. Opponents argue that restarting it would create worse emotional wounds and aggravate old ones. "It may well cause worse psychological reactions than the accident itself," says Holt. Last year a federal appeals court ordered the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to require the preparation find a psychological assessment, the first on record, and to consider the findings in deciding whether to allow the undamaged unit to reopen. The commission appealed...