Word: reactor
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...sent us one single rifle without the imprimatur of Israel on it." That statement, of course, is ludicrous. Yet it is important evidence that Saudis share the Arab view about the American failure to rein in its Israeli ally, even when Israel bombs civilians in Beirut and a nuclear reactor in Iraq...
Even the current proportion may not be maintained for long. This month the Power Authority of the State of New York has shut down an operating reactor at Indian Point because of cracking and leakage in the plumbing of its steam generator; the cities of Austin and San Antonio have developed severe doubts about a big reactor abuilding in Texas; and a Washington State utility combine is faced with -'an uncontrollable termination"-that is, complete cancellation-of two reactors under construction. Surveying the ballooning cost of building nuclear plants, Merrill Lynch, the giant investment firm, coldly suggested in March...
While the Reagan Administration attempts to mend America's nuclear-power industry, such extensive repairs are not as yet necessary in other countries. From South Korea (one reactor) to the Soviet Union (23 reactors), the world is still looking more or less confidently to the atom for its electric power. Outside the U.S., 21 countries now have a total of 182 atomic-powered generating plants in operation, and another 138 plants are under construction...
...Japan, where 22 facilities now generate 12% of the country's electricity, another 15 plants are set for completion by 1985. Yet a major mishap last March at a reactor in Tsuruga, where a ton of radioactive water leaked into nearby coastal waters, captured national headlines and fueled opposition to atomic power across the country. Japanese officials last year proposed dumping low-level wastes into the Pacific, but an international wave of protest quickly forced them to table the plan...
...provide autonomy for the 1.3 million Palestinian Arabs of the occupied West Bank and Gaza, or both. The Reagan Administration has proved notably unwilling to lean on Israel in any way that would assuage Arab fears. Washington's ineffectual protests against Israeli air raids on the Iraqi nuclear reactor, and on Palestinian areas of Beirut, were widely and bitterly noted in the Arab world. The Arabs, moreover, have been unmoved by U.S. pressures to form a "strategic consensus" against the Soviet threat. They regard Israel's intransigence on the Palestinian question as a more immediate provocation than...