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...most vigorous grassroots political movements in recent Vermont history is now forming. The issue is a mammoth nuclear power station just built in the Connecticut River Valley at Vernon, Vermont. This reactor, designed by General Electric to generate 513,900 kilowatts of electricity, has not yet begun production pending final approval by its mother, the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), and its host, the state of Vermont...
...facility at Vernon will be operated by the Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corporation, but suffers from limitations inherent in its fission, boiling water reactor (BWR) design and its peculiar location in the Connecticut River Valley near the Vermont Massachusetts border...
...mortgage seconds before the creditors start moving the furniture out of Currier House. George Bennett sings the Henry Mancini theme song, "Every Tub on its Own Bottom." Below is a shot from the climactic final scene in which ground is broken for a cement-and-concrete nuclear reactor and photocopying center on the former site of Harvard Yard and Memorial Hall. BENNETT announces, "With construction costs rising 73 per cent a month, we just can't afford to wait until we have the money and space," as AL VELLUCCI looks on, smiling...
Best for Brain. Dr. John Laughlin of Manhattan's Sloan-Kettering Institute reports nitrogen 13 and oxygen 15 highly effective in studying lung diseases. An entirely artificial element, technetium 99, produced by nuclear bombardment of molybdenum in a reactor, is rated by most medical centers as the best for detecting tumors of the brain. Both the gases and technetium have the advantage of short half-lives-that is, they lose half of their radioactivity in hours, or at most a few days. Thus, their radiation is so short-lived that it will not harm the patient exposed...
...Israel's last resort, and an outright rejection could be dangerous. Rather than be outgunned and outmaneuvered eventually, Israel might carry out a pre-emptive strike that could draw Russians and perhaps Americans, too, into a Middle East war. Some observers also note that Israel, with a nuclear reactor in the Negev as a source of enriched plutonium, could build a nuclear weapon in a matter of months. Though the Israelis have vowed that they would not be the first to introduce nukes into the Middle East, would they stick to that resolve if the U.S. failed them...