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...safety and emission controls might be asked and satisfactory fly answered before the station be allowed to operate. The key safety device presently missing at the Yankee power station in Vernon. Vermont, is, I am assured by a call to the Boston Edison Company, present in the Plymouth reactor. This does not mean, however, that all cause for concern ceases. A common characteristic of the two plants, for example, is that they are both boiling water reactors. This type of reactor (pressurized water reactors are the alternative kind of reactors in current use) has a record of annually emitting hundreds...
...most crucial problem, devising a tight but long-lasting seal at the three apexes of the rotor, was solved by substituting a carbon alloy for the cast-iron tip used in German models. The original Wankel engines belched clouds of smoke, so Toyo Kogyo built a 40-lb. "thermal-reactor" afterburner to oxidize the exhaust and attached a dozen more antipollution devices to the engine. As a result, says Jiro Morikawa. president of Mazda Motors of America, the Japanese Wankel can be easily modified to meet the U.S.'s strict 1975 standards for auto pollution, even if conventional European...
There will be no full-scale test of emergency systems at Vernon before 1973 or 1974 because the test facility has been delayed in construction. Testing will take place at the National Reactor Testing site near Idaho Falls, but results will not come before 1975. And, as Dr. Milton Shaw, AEC director of reactor development, testified before Congress, "Seventy-one utilities and twenty architect-engineering firms are working on nuclear power plants. Most of these personnel are trying to build the first nuclear plant they ever built...
...REACTORS are licensed under the Research and Medical Section of the Atomic Energy Act. They have not yet been deemed of "practical value" by the AEC, according to the act. Yet over 92 are now being actually designed. In short, nuclear power plants are colossal experiments, with entirely untested emergency systems, poorly defined construction standards, built by complete novices. Is this why no insurance company in the nation will cover the risk involved? In fact, no utilities would consider building nuclear plants until the Price-Anderson Act of 1957 absolved them of all financial responsibility. The government, under this form...
...result Senator Mike Gravel (D-Alaska) has announced a bill to call for a moratorium on reactor building and the creation of a national energy agency to oversee the AEC and stop reckless proliferation of atomic reactors...