Word: breeders
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...thread (sewing is Opal Beihoffer's hobby) for their coat of arms; because marriage and the home are important to the family, they also chose a pair of intertwined rings and a front door (see cut). Says Marketing Manager James Sutton: "We got one request from a swine breeder. He didn't want just any pig, but his breed with its distinctive characteristics on the shield...
Karen Silkwood was a $4-an-hour technician at Kerr-McGee Corp.'s Cimarron River plutonium plant about 30 miles north of Oklahoma City. The facility makes plutonium pellet fuel rods for the breeder reactor, a second-generation nuclear power plant now being developed. Silkwood was one of the most active members of local 5-283 of the Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers Union. She was deeply concerned about how plutonium was handled. And with good reason. Inhalation or swallowing of a few specks of the radioactive element can result in cancer. Exposure to slightly greater quantities can cause...
While U.S. energy requirements can be met by conventional fossil fuels, research and development of alternative sources-solar and thermal energy and the like-should continue apace. Development of the fusion process should be given top priority as a replacement for the breeder reactor, which employs the riskier nuclear fission process...
...bound to be controversial. For example, it does not even consider sabotage as a cause of nuclear accidents, a possibility that especially troubles Ralph Nader. Nor does it investigate the additional risk of accident involved in the new generation of gas-cooled reactors or the next generation of fast-breeder reactors. In addition, anti-nuclear critics like the Union of Concerned Scientists in Cambridge, Mass., vow to scrutinize WASH-1400 for any oversimplification, any error in calculation or method that might discredit the work...
...other big money item in the R. and D. budget is the breeder reactor, the machine that will produce energy in the next generation of nuclear (fission) power plants. This promising device, which creates (or breeds) slightly more fuel than it consumes, has been heavily funded ever since Nixon called for its fast development in 1971. Though other nations-most notably the U.S.S.R.-have prototype breeders, the U.S. does not. Its breeder program now gets $365.6 million a year. Next year, the report says, that amount should jump to $515.5 million, and a total of $2.8 billion should...