Word: nuclear
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...Hampshire's Seabrook plant has produced some of the nuclear power industry's fiercest battles, leading to more than 2,500 arrests of protesters since the mid-1970s and to repeated announcements of its demise. Yet like the phoenix, the nuclear plant has a way of rising again. Last week the Nuclear Regulatory Commission voted 3 to 0 to give the station a license to operate at full power. Plant officials praised the decision as a "triumph of reason." They predicted that the reactor, now eleven years overdue for its start-up and carrying a price tag of $6.4 billion...
Even so, opponents are steadfast. James Shannon, the attorney general of Massachusetts, plans to appeal the decision in federal court. Nuclear power opponents contend that the decision represents no rebirth for the industry, since the plant's cost overruns have prompted hefty rate increases for consumers in New England...
...HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER. The adaptation of Tom Clancy's best-selling nuclear- submarine saga (with sturdy Sean Connery) earns its thrills; it nicely balances human menace with technical gee-wizardry. But could this scenario happen in Gorbachev's navy...
...Americans are? Will our children be working mostly in Japanese-owned companies and paying rent to Japanese landlords? It's hard to look at recent economic history -- or at a self-focusing Sony combination video camera/VCR no bigger than a grapefruit -- without wondering just that. (JAPAN NOW AHEAD IN NUCLEAR POWER, TOO, read last Tuesday's New York Times.) But one needn't look to genetic superiority to account for Japan's remarkable and mostly well-deserved success...
...minds of the nations of Eastern Europe that are slipping out of its political grip and those of Western Europe that have fearfully armed against it since the end of World War II. Amid the rejoicing, however, some cautionary notes are in order. A fragmenting giant with an immense nuclear arsenal must be carefully watched for signs of instability. That would be particularly true if the U.S.S.R. unraveled to a point at which a Russian chauvinist republic might control it. Such concerns are real, if premature. As William Webster, the director of the CIA, testified in Washington last week...