Word: reactors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...problems almost from the first. After the exciting breakthroughs of the Manhatten Project, which developed the atomic bomb, the task of working out the details of nuclear power plants was relatively mundane. As Ford writes, "Nobel prizes are not given to people who do plumbing, even for a nuclear reactor's cooling system." The result was that many of those most talented in nuclear physics returned to the ivory tower or took on positions in weapons development...
...addition, the herbicides have not been conclusively linked to cancer or birth defects as Mr. Solomon might have us believe. The worst incidence of human contamination by TCDD occurred in Seveso, Italy, in 1976. Some 37,000 people were exposed there when an industrial reactor exploded. No significant effects other than temporary skin irritation (Chloracne) have yet been reported. Extensive research has been done concerning Vietnam veterans, but the results have not been conclusive in linking the herbicides to any serious health effects...
...guard, a few yuletide goodies may slip into law, including a $500,000 chimpanzee colony for New Mexico State University. Not that the issue is just fish bait and monkeys. Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker's notorious pork-barrel project, the $3.6 billion Clinch River breeder reactor, was voted continued funding...
...from the world at large. By reminding Gentiles of the Holocaust and constantly invoking solidarity among Jews, the Prime Minister has managed to guide Israel by his firm hand alone. At times, Begin's "the hell with everyone else" attitude was worthy of admiration. By bombing the Iraqui nuclear reactor, for example, Israel sacrificed popularity for safety. As former Israeli foreign minister Abba Eban has said, "Better to be unpopular than dead...
...responsibility for the fate of other Jews. Politics thus is more than government or party work to Begin. It is about the survival of a people. He recently listed the five most important things he had accomplished as Prime Minister. They were: 1) the bombing of the Iraqi nuclear reactor, 2) the Israeli-Egyptian peace treaty, 3) the annexation of the Golan Heights, 4) Project Renewal, a nationwide slum rehabilitation program, and 5) the establishment of more Jewish settlements in the West Bank and Gaza...