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Russell became absorbed in the proliferation problem while writing TIME's 1981 cover story on the Israeli attack against Iraq's Tammuz nuclear reactor. At that time, remembers Russell, "I called down 30 or 40 books on the subject, some of them absolutely opaque." Since then, Russell has added to his knowledge by plowing through several cubic feet of nuclear literature, including an impressive stack of documents assembled by Reporter-Researcher Edward Desmond for this week's story. "The more you know about this problem," says Russell, "the less obvious the solutions...
...Center, whose state-of-the-art research facilities were opened in 1982. According to Ann MacLachlan, European editor for McGraw-Hill Inc.'s Nucleonics Week, who has visited the Libyan facility, the Soviets have supplied a small TM4-A Tokamak Nuclear Fusion Facility, which includes a ten-megawatt research reactor and a reactor-training site. Employed at the plant are several hundred Libyans who are studying nuclear operations...
...agency's safeguards system has seldom been openly called into question. In 1981, following the Israeli attack on Iraq's Tammuz reactor, two inspectors unconnected with the facility resigned, charging suspicious Iraqi delays in allowing agency visits at the site. But France subsequently revealed that under a secret agreement with Iraq, French technicians had kept a constant eye on the workings of the Tammuz plant. That same year, while negotiating an upgraded agreement with Pakistan over safeguards at its Canadian-built reactor, the agency, without alleging any wrongdoing, said that it was unable to certify the facility. About two years...
...WASN'T JUST Max and Werner across the hall who are happy about the results. I know those weapon over in P-entry who have the breaded reactor in their suite are feeling better. The master's assistant says she's glad she won't have to find a pawn shop for that plutonium anklet she was on special occasions. And that gang up in D-51 is glad they don't have to take down their early-warning radar system...
...heard these kinds of company assurances before," said Schnapp, citing broken promises of safety made by the Union Carbide plant in Bhopal, India, the Babcock and Wilcox nuclear reactor at Three Mile Island, and the Hooker Chemical Co. at Love Canal...