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Bunn also recommends the HEU be mixed with low-grade uranium which, while making the uranium unusable in bombs, would still be useful as power-reactor fuel...

Author: By Juliet J. Chung, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: KSG Report Urges Faster Nuclear Disarmament | 2/28/2000 | See Source »

...categorize, including his background. Born in Egypt in 1960 to Armenian parents, Egoyan relocated to Canada when he was three, but didn't begin speaking English until four years later. Egoyan's unique name reflects his dual heritage, as he was named "Atom" in recognition of the first nuclear reactor ever to be built in Egypt, and his last name was shortened from Yeghoyan upon the family's arrival in British Columbia...

Author: By William Gienapp, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Independent Means | 2/18/2000 | See Source »

Last July, after a leak at a reactor in Fukui prefecture, operators gave 90 visitors a tour outside the plant, even though they hadn't found the source of the leak and didn't know the extent of the damage. Videotapes of another plant accident were tampered with by a plant official. In 1997 managers at another plant in Tokaimura tried to cover up an explosion that left 37 workers contaminated by radiation. The revelation prompted then Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto to declare, "I am so angry, I cannot utter a word." But his apoplexy effected little change...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Japan Syndrome | 10/11/1999 | See Source »

...diplomats still hope they can scuttle this launch at the negotiating table. They've done it before. Pyongyang agreed to abandon plans to convert nuclear-reactor fuel into nuclear weaponry when the U.S. and Japan agreed to pay for oil imports and build two new reactors. And South Korea's President Kim Dae Jung has embarked on a policy of engagement, offering food and investment from South Korean companies. As thanks, North Korea has sent fishing boats into South Korean waters and provoked a naval clash (Seoul's forces sank one ship), dispatched a suspected spy vessel into Japan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: North Korea: Ready, Aim, Extort | 8/23/1999 | See Source »

...Built foundation of new government to alter national consciousness." Or Henry David Thoreau, Class of 1837: "Built and inhabited isolated cabin to alter national consciousness." Or Theodore J. Kaczynski '62: "Built and inhabited isolated cabin to alter national consciousness." You can discover a new element, build a nuclear reactor out of Tinker Toys, or save children from burning buildings on alternate Thursdays. The sky's the limit--well, the sky, and the automatic bullet-formatting of your version of Microsoft Word...

Author: By Dara Horn, | Title: Billboards in Fantasyland | 4/29/1999 | See Source »

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