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...facilities to discover possible abnormal movements of personnel and equipment and to watch for nonreported alterations in the plants. The frequency of inspection varies from three or four times a year under normal circumstances to sudden visits if an emergency occurs. A few inspections are unannounced. Certain facilities, like uranium enrichment plants, may be kept under continuous supervision. As the number and sophistication of safeguarded installations have grown, the inspectors' task has been described as "putting gloves on an octopus...
FOOTNOTE: *Uranium 235 (U-235) and plutonium 239 (Pu-239) are the radioactive elements used in atom bombs. Uranium enrichment is the process by which the concentration of U-235 in natural uranium is increased, eventually to weapons-grade material. From 33 to 55 lbs. of U-235 at roughly 93% purity can be used in a Hiroshima-size bomb. Reprocessing is the chemical procedure for extracting Pu-239 from the spent uranium fuel of nuclear reactors, where the plutonium is produced as a waste product. A breeder reactor uses plutonium as fuel rather than uranium: by atomic fission, additional...
DIED. Charles Shipman Payson, 86, sportsman, philanthropist and industrialist (steel, uranium, oil and railroads), and with his late first wife, Heiress Joan Whitney Payson, long a mainstay of the social columns; in Lexington, Ky. Born in Maine, Payson donated more than $23 million to the Portland Museum of Art and was also a major backer of the America's Cup yachts. After his second marriage in 1977 to Virginia Kraft, then a SPORTS ILLUSTRATED editor, they established their own breeding farm, racing stable and training center...
...success in counteracting the heavily Democratic Hispanic vote. The reason: the conservative economic interests which dominate the state in the form of a powerful energy and military industrial establishment. The state is home to two major research facilities (Los Alamos and Sandia Labs) and two Air Force bases, and uranium mining is a major source of revenue...
Wilson's "message" is made all the more heavy handed by the absence of a plausible plot, or truly three-dimensional characters. The characters are all assembled in a mission in rural New Mexico and are held together by an even flimsier pretext--an explosion in a nearby uranium mine. The quarantine provides the characters with just enough time--24 hours--to sort out their problems and to remind us in no uncertain terms of the health hazards the indian population faces daily...