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Ever since a Soviet nuclear-powered satellite broke apart over a remote region of northern Canada in 1978, the use of atomic reactors in space has been highly controversial. Once again the debate over nukes in orbit has heated up. Last April the Soviets lost control of another nuclear satellite, raising fears that it would fall to earth before they managed to boost the reactor into a safer, high-altitude orbit. Then, at a scientific conference in New Mexico last month, the Soviets said they had begun putting a new generation of powerful reactors in space and were even interested...
...news has upset antinuclear activists and raised questions about American + plans for nukes in space. The U.S. has not launched a nuclear satellite since 1977, relying instead mostly on solar-powered models. But Pentagon officials are planning the eventual use of atomic spacecraft in the Strategic Defense Initiative, the Government's proposed space-based defense system. To prevent that idea from going any further, U.S. Representative George Brown, a California Democrat, introduced a bill in Congress last week that would bar American nuclear-power sources from space -- on the unlikely condition that the Soviets do so first. The only exceptions...
...average Massachusetts household uses approximately 60 gallons of water each day, according to MWRA Executive Director Paul Levy. A 10 percent reduction in water use would be easily accomplished through simple measures...
Levy stressed the need to attend to household problems that cause water waste, such as fixing leaky faucets and pipes, limiting toilet use and cutting back on garden watering...
That legislation would regulate land development near the state's three main water sources--the Quabbin and Wachusetts reservoirs and the Ware River, said David Barrenberg, an aide to Cohen. Cohen's bill calls for regulation of land use within 400 feet of any major tributaries...