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NUCLEAR PACT. In June 1975, West Germany signed a $4.7 billion agreement to sell Brazil a complete nuclear-fuel facility. The package provides for cooperation on uranium exploration and mining, supplies of nuclear fuel to Germany, and construction by German firms of eight nuclear-reactor plants, a fuel-fabrication plant and a nuclear fuel-reprocessing plant...
Beyond the financial benefits, the deal was important to Bonn because it offered a potentially steady supply of reactor fuels to West Germany. The U.S. protested that two of the installations -the fuel-fabrication plant and the reprocessing plant-could be used by Brazil to develop its own nuclear weapons potential. Brazil has not signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty...
Small Output. Yet the very existence of the group-and its reason for being in Wisconsin last week-points up a worrisome energy problem: nuclear power, once regarded as the ultimate energy source, faces a more troubled future today than it did when the first experimental reactor was switched on in 1951. Only 63 nuclear-power plants are operating, and they account for a mere 2.9% of all U.S. energy production. Only seven atomic-power plants were licensed in 1976, and only three reactors were ordered, compared with...
...efficiency of the breeder is worth the risk," Meyer said. Pindyck said the breeder reactor would not be as economically efficient as Meyer contended...
Meyer said he supported increased funding for the construction of "light-water" nuclear reactors and for the development of an efficient breeder reactor. Breeder reactors consume uranium and produce plutonium, which can then fuel other nuclear reactors...