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...pared down Shaw's job, letting him run the AEC's research program, but establishing a new division to handle the vital issue of reactor safety. Shaw argued that safety was an integral part of design. But Ray insisted: "Duplication in this case can do nothing but good." Shaw quit. As for Ramey, Ray simply did not back his reappointment to the commission when his term expired in June. These acts outraged some members of the Joint Committee when Ray presented them as fails accomplis. But other committeemen were pleased by her independence. "Dixy Lee does what...
...discuss the environmental impact of many key policies-except in court. To help change that situation, Ray outmaneuvered two of the agency's most effective and powerful figures, James Ramey and Milton Shaw. Ramey, an AEC commissioner since 1962, was the liaison man with Congress. Shaw, director of reactor development and technology, was the supertechnocrat who got things done. Because of their persuasive lobbying, the Senate-House Committee on Atomic Energy, originally set up to be a watchdog group, never seriously cut the AEC'S budget or curbed its plans...
...nuclear power plants in the country and halt any further construction until a dispute over the safety of such plants can be resolved. The suit demands that nuclear plants be shut until the AEC can give verified assurances that back-up systems, designed to cool off an overheating reactor core if the primary system breaks down, will work reliably...
...aspect of the energy crisis that gets more than its fair share of optimism is the rate at which power systems can be phased in. The phase-in times of geothermal power, the breeder reactor, solar power, etc., are longer than most energy observers think...
NUCLEAR POWER. At present, 171 nuclear power plants are either in use or in various stages of planning or construction in the U.S. But almost all are conventional water-cooled reactors fueled by uranium 235, a rare isotope of uranium that is becoming increasingly difficult to mine and process economically. To avoid a uranium "crunch," President Nixon has ordered development by the 1980s of a new type of reactor called the fast-breeder, a name derived from its unique capability: during the chain reaction, surplus neutrons from the atoms of U-235 in its core bombard a surrounding blanket...