Word: space
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...meeting current environmental standards produces two to 25 fatalities a year. In addition, there is the threat of the "greenhouse effect," the possibility that all-out burning of coal would pour so much carbon dioxide into the air as to keep heat from escaping out of the atmosphere into space. Theoretical consequences that some scientists like to cite: warming of the earth, melting of the polar ice caps, flooding of the world's seacoast cities. In fact, there is no known way of producing energy without some environmental danger...
...question of how the U.S. can safely dispose of garbage from nuclear operations. Spent fuel and other wastes remain radioactive for thousands of years. At present a lot of such waste is stored under water in "swimming pools" at plant sites, but nuclear plants are running out of pool space. Some may have to shut down as early as 1983 unless a more permanent method of disposal is found. Nuclear plants are built to operate for about 35 years. By the year 2000 some worn-out ones will either have to be torn down or sealed up so that...
Silber wrote Arthur G.B. Metcalf, chairman of the board of trustess: "I thought that press handling has been pretty good thus far and, fortunately, there is enough significant news elsewhere to prevent major space...
Troubles have plagued the Soyuz-Salyut program of manned space laboratories since its inauguration. The first Soyuz spacecraft, developed in 1967 to carry cosmonauts to and from orbiting space stations, crashed on its return, killing its cosmonaut...
...first, attempt to dock with a space station was aborted in 1971 without any explanation. The next manned mission, Soyuz 11, put three men aboard the space station Salyut 1. But the cosmonauts were killed on their return to earth when their cabin lost its pressurization...