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...weeks away from try number two, resignation replaces some of the tingle. Many who camped on Santasoucci's farm in the fall share the feeling--chances are, with all the grappling hooks and all the maps and walkie-talkies and gorp, demonstrators will never hold the reactor; if they do, it will most likely be at a high cost to the anti-nuclear movement and other campaigns for social change...
...initial work, Reines, 62, a researcher at the University of California in Irvine, had measured the flow of neutrinos, or more precisely anti-neutrinos (their antimatter twins), in the streams of particles coming from a nuclear reactor at the Government's Savannah River weapons-grade plutonium plant. This time, Reines, joined by Physicists Henry W. Sobel and Elaine Pasierb, faced a more complicated task. By now neutrinos were believed to come in at least three varieties, or "flavors": one associated with electrons, the two others with larger particles called muons and taus...
...catch these particles, the physicists placed a sealed container of deuterium, or heavy water, 11.2 meters (37 ft.) from the reactor. Immersed in the liquid were ten helium-filled tubes wired to an external oscilloscope. The detection apparatus was shielded in lead and cadmium cylinders and a foot-thick "pot" to block everything but neutrinos. As the particles barreled through the heavy water, some scored bull's-eye hits on the nuclei of its hydrogen atoms, which contain an extra neutron. These collisions produced other particles, including more neutrons that struck the helium-filled tubes and registered...
...added that the federal government should have authority over the disposal of high level wastes and spent reactor fuel...
...last week's referendum proved, even such foreboding examples as the accident at Three Mile Island could not compete with Palme's prediction of widespread unemployment, recession and burdensome new energy costs if the reactor program were shut down. That was particularly clear in the six districts where reactors already operate: there the yes vote won by as much...