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...long step was taken last week toward the still-distant goal of providing the U.S. with a virtually limitless source of energy. In Washington, the new Energy Research and Development Administration issued a draft "environmental statement"* detailing the environmental impact of a large, advanced fusion test reactor. ERDA's action made it clear that the U.S. is determined to harness nuclear fusion, the process that feeds the fires of the sun and gives H-bombs their awesome power. If all goes well, the $215 million test reactor, to be built on the Forrestal campus of Princeton University, will...
...fuse. In the hydrogen bomb, the necessary pressures and temperatures are produced by first setting off a fission explosion. Controlling and containing fusion will be vastly more difficult, but scientists believe that the Russian-invented Tokamak (for "Toroidal Kamera Magnetic") system can be developed into a practical and safe reactor...
Karen Silkwood was a $4-an-hour technician at Kerr-McGee Corp.'s Cimarron River plutonium plant about 30 miles north of Oklahoma City. The facility makes plutonium pellet fuel rods for the breeder reactor, a second-generation nuclear power plant now being developed. Silkwood was one of the most active members of local 5-283 of the Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers Union. She was deeply concerned about how plutonium was handled. And with good reason. Inhalation or swallowing of a few specks of the radioactive element can result in cancer. Exposure to slightly greater quantities can cause...
...Government's foremost concern has always been alien involvement in national security. The Atomic Energy Commission, for example, cannot grant licenses to foreigners or foreign-controlled corporations for operating a nuclear reactor or for producing nuclear fuel. The Government also requires security clearance for any contractor or subcontractor dealing in classified projects. All directors and principal officers of a company doing such work must be investigated, and foreigners generally are not granted clearance. In effect, a company involved in sensitive Government business is permitted to have some foreign stockholders, but participation by aliens in management must be kept...
Later in the month, the Union issued a joint report with the Sierra Club, critical of an AEC reactor safety study...