Word: antinuclear
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...ever built will pass only 725 miles from Earth Tuesday on its way to a 2004 rendezvous with Saturn, its spectacular rings and its giant moon, Titan. The ship is Cassini, and while it's an object of pride for space scientists, it's an object of fear for antinuclear activists. Weighing in at around six tons at its launch in October 1997, Cassini lacked the rocket power to fly directly out to Saturn, which is on average 800 million miles from Earth. Instead it headed inward, swooping twice around Venus for "gravity assists" to increase its speed. Its encounter...
...will pass only 725 miles from Earth early next week on its way to a 2004 rendezvous with Saturn, its spectacular rings and its giant moon, Titan. The ship is Cassini, and while it's an object of pride for space scientists, it's an object of fear for antinuclear activists...
According to a small but vocal group of antinuclear activists, however, there's much more to worry about than upset feelings. Like all the deep-space probes that have gone before it, Cassini is powered by radioactive isotopes--in this case about 72 lbs. of plutonium 238. If the spacecraft were destroyed, insist these critics, some of the plutonium could be pulverized and wafted away by the wind. Even worse, Cassini is supposed to swing by Earth in 1999 for a gravity assist that would sling it out toward Saturn. If the probe comes too close, it could re-enter...
...been granted. Connecticut's Senator Chris Dodd, Representative Sam Gejdenson and a host of local officials were asking about the plant's safety, and Millstone scheduled a public meeting for late October. Senior vice president Don Miller sent a memo to his employees warning them that "experienced antinuclear activists" had "the intention of shutting the station down and eliminating 2,500 jobs." The memo stirred up some of Galatis' colleagues. "You're taking food out of my girl's mouth," one of them told...
...trim, sprightly Rotblat has been a celebrity among antinuclear activists for nearly half a century. He first started wrestling with the moral implications of atomic weaponry as a young refugee from Nazi-occupied Poland, working at the University of Liverpool in the early 1940s. "For me," he wrote in an article for the Hiroshima anniversary this past summer, "the decision to become involved in developing the Bomb was painful, and for almost a year I struggled with my conscience. Eventually I concluded, as did most of the other scientists, that we needed to make the Bomb so that it should...