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...most comprehensive imaginable energy program, however, nuclear power still would play a role. So the question remains: How can reactors be made safer right now? There are several approaches...
Plant and federal officials said the bubble is now a much safer size and the reactor's temperature has dropped significantly. Harold Denton, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's (NRC) chief of operations said yesterday that only two out of 177 fuel cells in the reactor were still overheating...
White House aides insist that Carter has not yet made up his mind. He could take the dramatic step of immediate decontrol, or he could choose the more modest, but politically safer option of gradually lifting controls on specified types of U.S. oil over two years. Carter is likely to ask Congress to include an excess profits tax that would prevent the oil companies from reaping a sudden bonanza. But whether he will urge that this tax be rebated to low-income families, be set aside for oil exploration or used to reduce his budget deficit apparently was undecided last...
...Research should only be funded if it seeks important information that is otherwise unobtainable, and is primarily aimed at making embryo transplants safer and more effective...
Raymond might be considered lucky to have been rowing at all in 1972. After his graduation from Princeton, he had gone into naval aviation before considering that "since the Vietnam war was really going then" he might be safer in another part of the navy. Appropriately, even if only through what he terms "unbelievable luck," Raymond found himself coaching the Naval Academy freshman heavyweights in 1970 and 1971. His term over, he escaped from the Navy...