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...over estimated 1973 spending and too little to keep pace with inflation. Moreover, most of the increase will be absorbed by the extra funds that have been allocated to what some Government officials call Nixon's "sacred cows": the development of new sources of energy, including the breeder reactor (up $130 million); the Administration's war on cancer and heart disease ($92 million); reducing damage from earthquakes and other natural disasters ($18 million); drug control and rehabilitation ($2,000,000); and research into new methods of crime prevention and control ($12 million). At the same time, the Administration...
Propulsion for the Mars craft will come from an engine not yet developed, perhaps the proposed NERVA (for Nuclear Engine for Rocket Vehicle Applications). It consists of a small nuclear reactor that heats liquid hydrogen until it is expelled as a jet of white-hot gas. To kick out of earth orbit (which requires much less thrust than an earth launch), the 270-ft.-long ships will fire-and then discard-the two outboard NERVAs strapped to their sides; the main booster, at the center of the engine cluster, will be retained. Then, as the two ships pull away from...
ENERGY. Although environmentalists may object, a major Nixon aim is a matter of genuine national urgency: to find new fuel and electrical-energy sources for the U.S. This will include support of oil supertankers, an Alaskan pipeline, nuclear breeder-reactor plants, more offshore drilling...
...sounds. The commission held extensive hearings at Bethesda, Md., to allow nuclear critics, who represented a coalition of 60 citizen groups, to dispute the effectiveness of a safety device called teh "emergency core cooling system." This back-up complex of pipes and valves is designed to bathe the hot reactor core with cooling water if the main cooling system fails. Since the system has not ever actually been tested, not even in scale models, scientists have had to depend on mathematical models to decide whether it would really work. In the hearings, much to the AEC's chagrin, many...
...Among them: the Robert E. Ginna reactor near Rochester, N.Y., Palisades near Kalamazoo, Mich., Maine Yankee at Wiscasset, Me., Indian Point No. 2 at Buchanan, N.Y., Beach Point No. 2 at Two Creeks, Wis., Turkey Point No. 3 on Florida's Biscayne Bay and Surry No. 2 in Gravel Neck...