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Increasing public opposition has already been responsible for halting the construction of several reactors; orders for new atomic plants have dropped from a peak of 31 in 1967 to seven in 1969. New York's Consolidated Edison Co. has been forced to postpone some nuclear plants and turn to gas turbines for power. Minnesota's Pollution Control Agency has defied the Atomic Energy Commission and imposed its own stringent radiation standards on a reactor being built by Northern States Power. While the utility has gone to court to challenge the power of a state to regulate atomic energy...
...Federal Radiation Council warns that "any radiation exposure involves some risk," and critics of the reactor program contend that any risk is too much as long as alternate power sources exist. Says Johns Hopkins Professor Edward P. Radford Jr., a specialist in the biological effects of radiation: "Until a year ago, I was one of those who felt that any problems associated with nuclear power could be solved." Now Radford is not so sure. He is not alone. Last month two scientists at the AEC's Livermore Radiation Laboratory reported that current radiation standards may be responsible...
Papist Takeover. The shotgun wedding makes sound economic sense. Ireland is direly short of educational funds, and university enrollment during the next decade is expected to nearly double, from 15,911 to 27,000. The merger will end a costly duplicating of facilities. Ireland has no nuclear reactor, for example, because it could not in the past afford to build one at each university. Under the government's plan, both schools will keep their separate liberal arts faculties. Trinity is to be responsible for all work in biological sciences, law and medicine; University College will take over the physical...
...postwar Germany, Hahn became the most revered elder statesman of what had once been Europe's proudest scientific establishment. He collected many awards, including a Nobel Prize in chemistry for his discovery of fission. But he always accepted such honors with characteristic humility. Visiting an atomic reactor or nuclear power station, he would shrug modestly: "It has all been the work of others." In a soon-to-be-published 300-page memoir, he brushed off his historic work in fewer than five pages. Last week, at the age of 89, the father of fission died peacefully in his beloved...
...late 1950s, Bechtel was invited by the Atomic Energy Commission to construct the first nuclear-power breeder reactor. Since that pioneering work in reactor design and construction, it has participated in 42 commercial nuclear projects, and is working on 20 more...