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...afraid that the breeder-reactor program is being sacrificed in the expectation that environmentalists will produce less resistance to the mining and burning of coal. But in 20 years, when the sky is noticeably darker from soot created by coal plants, the cancer rate of people living in the cities is rising from breathing the coal wastes and the land is becoming scarred from coast to coast by strip mining, what will our alternatives be then? When President Carter warned that Americans would have to sacrifice, I do not think he meant us, but rather our children...
OTHER ENERGY SOURCES. Both businesses and homeowners would be given tax credits for investing in solar-energy equipment. More funds would be provided for research on coal liquefaction and oil shale as well as solar energy. While maintaining its opposition to development of plutonium as a nuclear-reactor fuel-a gesture aimed at quieting opposition to nuclear power-the Administration would speed up the processing of applications for licenses for conventional, uranium-fueled nuclear generating plants from the present three-to-six years to six months. Says Eizenstat: "We are just trying to ensure that nuclear power plants that should...
...wants them to hold a briefing for reporters on the decision to cancel two breeder-reactor projects that Carter had mentioned to Senators Glenn, Ribicoff and Percy. "It might reassure [Japanese Premier Takeo] Fukuda and [West German Chancellor Helmut] Schmidt to understand that we are making distinctions between our own situation and theirs," Carter says...
...merely changing its emphasis to breeders that do not use plutonium. Indeed, if the Administration's estimates of domestic uranium reserves-a minimum of 1.8 million tons and probably as much as 3.7 million-are accurate (some experts characterize them as speculative at best), development of the breeder reactor would be less urgent because there would be enough uranium available to fuel conventional nuclear plants until at least the end of the century...
Carter, a former nuclear engineer, and Schlesinger, the onetime head of the AEC, might have been expected to put more emphasis on the development of nuclear power as a major part of the solution to the U.S. energy shortage. Not so. Apparently frightened about the possibility of reactor byproducts falling into the hands of irresponsible governments or bomb-building terrorists, Carter has already chopped $200 million from Ford's leftover budget for the development of advanced breeder reactors, which produce bomb-grade plutonium even as they produce energy. The Schlesinger program will call for a modest acceleration...