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Michio Kaku '68, associate professor of nuclear physics at City College of New York, spoke of the recent mishap that killed one person at a Titan II nuclear missile site in Arkansas. He recited a list of nuclear weapons and power plants that have problems, including a reactor in Florida that malfunctioned whenever a toilet flushed and one in California that was installed backwards...
...explosions could be used "in the field of mining and earth-moving operations." Skeptical international experts noted that the technology involved in such explosions was the same as that used to make atomic bombs. India convinced U.S. officials that the fuel for the device came from a reactor built with Canadian assistance and had nothing to do with the Tarapur shipments...
...worried about the proliferation of nuclear weapons abroad, got Congress to pass a law requiring that the U.S. sell nuclear fuel pragmatism to countries complying with the terms of the international nuclear nonproliferation treaty of 1968. The treaty requires nations without nuclear weapons to open all of their atomic reactors to international inspection to make sure they are not manufacturing ingredients for bombs. India has not signed the treaty, though it had previously agreed to permit inspection of the Tarapur reactor. But India has refused to allow outsiders to visit its other reactors, arguing that while it was devoted...
Part of the Iraqi-French deal covers the sale of a nuclear reactor-a development that has caused great anxiety in Israel, which fears that Iraq, one of the Jewish state's archenemies, could develop a nuclear weapons potential. Indeed the Iran-Iraq conflict, the first recent major crisis in the region in which Israel is not involved, was being closely watched in Jerusalem. "That fight," said an Israeli official acidly, "is proof that there is an inherent instability in the Middle East of which we are not a part...
Since the Three Mile Island accident 18 months ago, U.S. nuclear power development has been virtually shut down. Orders for new facilities, which hit a high of 41 in 1973, have dropped to zero. By comparison, France, which has Europe's most ambitious nuclear program, has 16 reactors in operation, an extra 32 under construction and 13 more in planning. The Soviet Union currently generates 10% of its electricity from nuclear sources, and the present Five-Year Plan calls for construction of ten reactors a year. Pyotr Neporozhny, the Soviet Minister of Electric Power Development and Electrification, announced...