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...emphasis of nuclear power. Both Carter and Schlesinger (a former chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, among his other credits) agree that nuclear power is too expensive and too vulnerable on the safety issue. In his budget, Carter has cut $200 million from the fast-breeder reactor program. One reason: such reactors produce plutonium, which can be used by any nation -friend or foe-to make atomic bombs...
Some playwrights have too few ideas -or none at all. John Guare (House of Blue Leaves) is of a rarer kind: his mind is a virtual breeder reactor of dramatic themes large and small. In Marco Polo Sings a Solo, a comedy now playing at Manhattan's Public Theater, Guare's reactor has run away from him. Ideas meet, collide and cancel one another out, like so many errant atoms, and his play explodes in a dozen directions...
Mondale found the Germans and the French reluctant to modify their deals for the sale of nuclear reprocessing plants to Brazil and Pakistan respectively. But they told Mondale they were willing to tighten international safeguards to prevent the conversion of spent reactor fuel into atomic weapons-a high Carter priority. Mondale also got agreement for further high-level international negotiations to limit the export of nuclear facilities...
Chishold, an energy conservation researcher, said the fast-breeder reactor will not be an acceptable alternative to conventional reactors...
...Breeder Reactor Questioned...