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Nuclear power: the bargain we can't afford (1977)

Auteur	Richard Morgan
Datum	1977
Classificatie	6.01.0.00/155 (ALGEMEEN)
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Foreword

The attitude of our society toward nuclear power has been schizophrenic at best. 
The nuclear age dawned in the hell of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and, while nuclear 
warfare has come to be accepted by most as unthinkable, the United States and 
the Soviet Union have continued to amass nuclear arsenals to prepare for the 
"unthinkable". At the same time, however, we succeeded in balancing our fear 
and revulsion over nuclear weapons by embracing the concept of "peaceful uses", 
particularly nuclear power generation which appeared to promise great benefits 
to mankind in terms of vast supplies of energy at low cost.
The happy illusion that weapons uses and peaceful uses of the atom could be kept 
comfortably separate has been rudely shattered with the explosion by India of a 
nuclear device manufactured from materials derived from a power reactor. The 
world now stands at the edge of the abyss of nuclear proliferation. The recent 
decision by the United States to terminate commercial development of the fast 
breeder reactor and to forego commercial reprocessing is a dramatic step toward 
reversing this trend. The nations of the world must pause and reexamine their 
nuclear policies.

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