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...general have twisted the court system to make life difficult for us. Our central concern, however, continues to be nuclear power. The insanity of a national energy economy based on an incredibly toxic carcinogen, plutonium; the public's blindness to the incredible costs of the nuclear fuel cycle, from uranium mining to fuel fabrication to power reactors to reprocessing plants to waste storage; the deliberate suppression of alternate energy sources like wind and solar; a technology that even government sources admit is capable of accidents killing up to 45,000 people--these are our concerns. These are the issues that...
...provided for research on coal liquefaction and oil shale as well as solar energy. While maintaining its opposition to development of plutonium as a nuclear-reactor fuel-a gesture aimed at quieting opposition to nuclear power-the Administration would speed up the processing of applications for licenses for conventional, uranium-fueled nuclear generating plants from the present three-to-six years to six months. Says Eizenstat: "We are just trying to ensure that nuclear power plants that should go forward do go forward in a reasonable amount of time. We are not changing our opposition to the [plutonium] breeder reactor...
...Unquestionably, coal and uranium must be the dominant fuels for electricity generation well into the next century," declared Clyde A. Lilly Jr., president of Birmingham, Ala.-based Southern Company Services, Inc. He predicted that electricity would become an ever more vital form of power. "The electric commuter car," he said, "is almost certain to play an important role in the future...
...prototype breeder to be built on the Clinch River in Oak Ridge, Tenn., will be restricted to research employing other fuels, like thorium, which is not used in weapons. Carter will block the federal funds needed to complete a privately owned plant in Barnwell, S.C., designed to reprocess used uranium fuel into plutonium. He will also call for a "joint effort" with other nations to tighten controls over plutonium...
Environmentalists and antinuke organizations applauded the moves, although some felt Carter should have killed the breeder program outright instead of merely changing its emphasis to breeders that do not use plutonium. Indeed, if the Administration's estimates of domestic uranium reserves-a minimum of 1.8 million tons and probably as much as 3.7 million-are accurate (some experts characterize them as speculative at best), development of the breeder reactor would be less urgent because there would be enough uranium available to fuel conventional nuclear plants until at least the end of the century...