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...Chemistry emeritus. Nobel Laureate James D. Watson, professor of Biology and over 2000 scientists and engineers, including several others on the Harvard Faculty, have signed the declaration, which was prepared by the Union of Concerned Scientists, a Cambridge-based group that has worked extensively on the question of reactor safety...
American experts fear the safeguards are inadequate. The IAEA is understaffed and lacks experience in inspecting full cycle systems. Washington also worries that Bonn may have as little success monitoring reactors in Brazil as Ottawa did in India; the Indians were able to divert nuclear materials from a Canadian-supplied power reactor in order to explode their first atom bomb a year ago last May. Moreover, Brazil's professions that it would use its nuclear facilities only for peaceful purposes encounter some skepticism; Brasilia has not signed the Non-Proliferation Treaty, and there have been persistent reports that...
...himself to a relationship with the U.S. that has brought him under considerable Arab criticism, Sadat has so far been disappointed by the meager returns. He staged a festive welcome for Nixon in Cairo last year and in return was grandly promised $250 million in aid and a nuclear reactor. To Sadat's chagrin, Congress delayed action on Nixon's promises. Moreover, Congress was giving "my good friend Henry," as Sadat has come to call Kissinger, a great deal of trouble. First Congress challenged his policies on Turkey and the Soviet Union, then two weeks ago no fewer...
Died. Jonathan Norton Leonard, 71, TIME'S Science editor from 1945 to 1965; of heart disease; in Manhattan. Leonard covered the development of the Abomb, the first nuclear reactor and the early discoveries of the space age. A man of wide-ranging curiosity, he was a biblical scholar as well as a Latin American specialist; he could describe quasars or the ways of night-flying squirrels with precision and clarity. Such books as Flight Into Space and Crusades of Chemistry made Leonard one of the nation's most respected science writers. ∙ Died. Clifford Durr, 76, Federal Communications...
...environmental wrangles, safety worries. More recently, capital shortages have produced construction stretch-outs, even plant cancellations. As of now, there are 53 active nuclear plants, v. six a decade ago; construction permits have been granted for 63 more plants. Clearly in trouble, though, is the liquid-metal, fast-breeder reactor, which has swallowed the major share of federal energy R. and D. dollars in recent years. Opposition has grown to the breeder and the plutonium it turns out; no accepted way has been found to dispose of the excess radioactive waste...