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Behind the officers--a few of the 500-plus who were bussed in for the occasion--stood the containment building which will enclose the nuclear core, that energy-and-radiation-producing network of fuel rods, uranium pellets and cooling pipes. The containment, looking out over Long Island Sound, its grey exterior matching the thick cloud covering above, was the symbol of the nuclear power plant; to those who had come to protest it, it represented all that was evil about nukes. Though no protesters would actually reach the reactor building that Sunday afternoon (and only one tried), it was visible...
...French government is especially embarrassed by reports of the killings: aid from Paris, offered in return for military facilities and access to uranium deposits, keeps Bokassa in power. Moreover, Giscard sometimes goes on hunting trips to the Empire, where his family owns a hotel and a hunting lodge. Nonetheless, Paris announced that it was suspending military assistance to the Empire pending a complete investigation by five African states of the massacre charges...
Today the U.S. gets about 96% of its energy from only four expendable sources: oil, natural gas, coal and uranium. Each suffers one or more environmental, safety, cost or supply disadvantages. The International Energy Agency estimates that this year, even without new crude production cutbacks by OPEC, the worldwide supply of oil could fall short of demand by 2.3 million bbl. a day. The U.S. is particularly vulnerable, since it accounts for 19 million bbl. of the total demand of 60 million bbl., and uses about 60% of all the gasoline burned in the industrial countries...
Under a baking 80 degree sun Winona La Duke - Westigard '80, a Native American activist, told the crowd that "what's happening here at Draper Labs has been going on for a long time--we'd been here 40,000 years, and we didn't take uranium out of the land. It took the military industrial complex to do that...
...Nuclear Regulatory Commission provided disturbing new details on the initial performance of Metropolitan Edison Co., the plant's beleaguered operator. Midway through the first critical day, the hot, uranium-filled core, normally bathed in pressurized cooling water, was left dangerously uncovered for as long as 50 minutes; controllers had shut off the emergency core cooling system, probably because of ambiguous or misleading instrument readings. It was during this period that much of the damage was done to the fuel rods, causing a release of radiation...