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...hacked out billions from the Defense Department budget, and cut piecemeal in other areas: nuclear reactor research, federal employees, water treatment, and federal freebies to corporations. (For example, the Clinton budget would require pharmaceutical companies to pick up a larger share of the Food and Drug Administration's budget.) All in all, stuff that makes neoliberals and (all but the most unreconstructed) liberals alike happy...
Suddenly, Russian space technology is looking better. In fact, even before last week's White House order, some small-scale cooperative projects were in the works. The Americans decided last year to purchase a Russian Topaz space- based nuclear reactor, admitting that the Russians' design was superior to anything in the U.S. A Soyuz space capsule is on the potential shopping list as well, to be used as a kind of lifeboat to get astronauts away from a failing space station. Later this year Russian cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev, who was stranded in space for months by political maneuverings during...
...OFFICIALS HASTENED TO SAY, ANOTHER Chernobyl. But radiation leaks from an exploding uranium tank at the Tomsk-7 chemical plant in western Siberia did constitute the most serious nuclear accident since the 1986 Ukrainian reactor fire that spewed deadly radiation over Russia, Belarus and much of Western Europe, killing hundreds. Minor pollution and no casualties were reported at Tomsk-7, which lies 1,800 miles east of Moscow and produced, until recently, lethal plutonium for nuclear weapons. Environmental groups, which claim that the Tomsk incident was more serious than reported and blame it on slack safety standards, are calling...
Breaking up a nuclear superpower is hard to do. Russian and American scientists think they have a way to put Russia's plutonium to good use, by jointly building a $1.5 billion reactor to produce electricity. The device would be partly fueled from Moscow's huge stockpile of scrapped nuclear warheads. But some officers at a Moscow air-defense unit came up with their own way to enhance disarmament: they were stealing gold and platinum from the circuit boards of missiles and selling it. A captain and two junior sergeants netted $28,000 worth of precious metals before being arrested...
...like that. "It" can't be turned on and off like a light switch. "It" is more like a nuclear reactor--a long buildup to full power and a longer slide to shutdown. Anything goes wrong, and it's bad news...