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...trouble is first recorded by sensitive, computerized instruments in the control room of the nuclear power plant. They warn that temperatures inside the reactor are rising fast toward a danger point - so fast that only one explanation is possible: somehow, the main pipes carrying water to the reactor core have broken or clogged. As white-coated technicians look on helplessly, the back-up water system also fails. Deprived of the coolant that controls its temperature, the reactor begins melting in its own heat. Then the machine and its fuel collapse into a molten mass that explosively converts the coolant water...
Lethal Garbage A reactor's wastes, mainly the depleted uranium fuel, are so highly radioactive that they pose serious risks to humans. Much of the waste will remain dangerous for centuries, and nuclear power critics argue that it is not fair to produce lethal garbage that could endanger future generations. Government experts are remarkably untroubled by that prospect. They point out that the total amount of waste that nuclear plants will produce by the year 2000 would fit, if stacked six feet high, on a single football field. The Federal Government proposes to bury the wastes deep...
...Israel's shopping list: the Pershing missile, which has a nuclear potential. Although Jerusalem has never confirmed or denied it, U.S. intelligence experts assume that Israeli technicians have built about ten bulky A-bombs using the uranium that is a byproduct of the country's Dimona reactor. In an interview with TIME Diplomatic Editor Jerrold Schecter, Peres explained Israel's views...
Kistiakowsky said yesterday that the declaration, which warns that a "major mishap" is likely due to the unproven effectiveness of reactor safety systems, is an effort to "balance the irrational drive for nuclear power plans on the part of the administration and the industry...
...writers of the declaration see the proliferation of nuclear plants as a major threat to American liberties and international safety because they say safeguard procedures are inadequate to prevent terrorist theft of commercial reactor-produced plutonium...