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Finally, after sneaking the Mutsu out to sea late one night last week, the ship's engineers turned on its untried reactor...
Naive Belief. Japan, the one country to have experienced a nuclear attack, has an understandable aversion to developing atomic weapons. If the Japanese or the Canadians, who sold India its reactor under an agreement prohibiting development of a bomb, wanted a nuclear capability, though, they could easily have it, as could the West Germans, who renounced all nuclear weapons in 1956 as a condition for joining the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Israel also could quickly become a nuclear power. Since the late 1950s it has had a large atomic reactor at Dimona in the Negev desert; the reactor has been...
...reactor that the U.S. is planning to help Egypt build could produce enough Pu-239 tinder annually for about ten bombs. If Israel goes ahead with its ambitious plans for a Nuplex sea water desalination plant, the Pu-239 byproduct could be used for more than 50 bombs each year. Already there are 562 power-producing or research reactors in operation or under construction in 33 nations. By 1980, it is estimated, up to 1 million lbs. of Pu-239 will have been accumulated in the world's civilian nuclear power industry; a warhead with less than...
...study, a 3,300-page, 14-volume document that cost $3 million and took 60 specialists two years to research and write, is called An Assessment of Accident Risks in U.S. Commercial Nuclear Power Plants. Like its predecessor, its argument is statistical. The probability of any conventional water-cooled reactor's having an accident in any given year that might kill 1,000 people, the researchers reckon, is about the same as that of a meteor's striking a U.S. population center and killing 1,000 people-1 chance in 1 million...
...pushed forward to nine minutes before midnight. The editors cite a number of reasons for their new pessimism: the lack of a further arms agreement between the superpowers; the continued spread of nuclear weaponry, emphasized by India's entry into the "nuclear club"; the American promise of reactor technology to the "volatile" Middle East; and mankind's increasing vulnerability to nuclear sabotage and terrorism by amateur bomb makers...