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...Uranium cargo raises new fears about nuclear hazards...
...agreement reached in 1979. If last-minute negotiations pay off, the two leaders will endorse a deal allowing U.S. companies to build nuclear power plants in China. The discussion has been snagged over a U.S. requirement that any country receiving American nuclear technology seek U.S. consent before reprocessing spent uranium...
...country's energy, and petroleum only 27%. Some time this year France will start up Super-Phénix, the world's first commercial breeder reactor. Using advanced nuclear technology, it will be able to produce 60 times as much energy from a given amount of uranium as the present generation of reactors...
...tries to get elected president of the Oglala Sioux tribal council. While he watches the young move out to the cities and the old die off or die in the bottle, he knows that answers to all his problems could be right at his feet in the form of uranium and other valuable minerals...
...classic land-rape as practiced-by the American corporation, and knows the ongoing 100-year epic of brutal wars and ignored promises. He also knows that the miners will use huge amounts of water--possibly the whole of Pine Ridge's aquifer--in the process of extracting the uranium and zeolite, and he knows what strip-mined land looks like, what the acres and acres of barren, torn up, lifeless land could look like. His is the classic Indian dilemma--between development or poverty, neither palatable options--and Reagan has done nothing to get at this...