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394Brittle PowerJoint Committee on Defense Production1977:II:65–68.29 The Soviets shared that problem even in1948–49, when a U.S. targeting plan for onehundred fifty nuclear weapons gave top priorityto refineries, especially those producingaviation fuel (Joint Chiefs of Staff 1949/1978).Soviet refining is still highly concentrated.Arms Control and Disarmament Agency1978; Office of Technology Assessment 1979a;Katz 1981:317ff).30 Stephens 1970:74.31 Dumas 1976, 1980.32 Coates 1980.33 Wentzel 1979:4.34 Ibid.:7.35 Perlman & Hastings 1981; Kolata 1982.36 Lyons 1981.37 Hsu 1981.38 Dumas 1980:18ff.39 Schultz 1981.40 Friedman 1980.10 Clark 1978:7.11 Holling & Goldberg 1971:222, fromwhom the example is paraphrased.12 Ibid.:223.13 Ibid.:224.14 Ibid.:227–228.15 Clark 1978:11–12.16 Belady & Lehman 1976.17 Vacca 1974.18 Wentzel 1979:2.19 Lovins 1977b:10–11.20 Jackson 1980; Jackson & Bender 1981.21 Clark 1978:6–17.22 Isaksen 1980.23 Boeck et al. 1975.24 Campbell & Martin 1973.25 Kerr 1981.26 Park & Helliwell 1978.27 Clark 1978:8.28 Ibid.:10.29 A.B. Lovins wrote the list in the course ofconsultancy in the early phases of the MITWorkshop on Alternative Energy Strategies.He is still looking for his copy.Notes to Chapter Three1 Dresch & Ellis 1966:3, emphasis added.2 Ford 1982:25–26.3 Hoover 1979:53. The “comprehensivestudy of reactor safety” referred to was the“Rasmussen Report” (NRC 1975), whose riskassessments were subjected to such stingingcriticism that the Nuclear RegulatoryCommission, four years later, found they were“no longer considered reliable.”4 Okrent & Moeller 1981:73.5 Our argument does not depend on thissometimes forced distinction, which is drawnby, among others, Solomon & Salem 1980.6 Epler 1970.7 Pollard 1979: failure of power supply, 17;transformer failure, 28; incorrect installation,30, incorrect manufacture, 70, 73; impropersoldering, 48, 65; leaking floats, 50; wiringerrors, 51; water damage, 57; contaminatedoil, 61; clogged strainers, 62; miswired thermostat,63; origin unknown, 11.8 Ibid.:control rods, 17; relays 22.9 Cooper 1973; Manned Spaceflight Center1970, 1970a.Notes to Chapter Four1 We do not treat here the additional,longer-term problem that the fossil andnuclear fuels on which today’s energy systemlargely depends are finite and thereforeexhaustible (Hubbert 1969; Bartlett 1981).The alternatives proposed in Part Three, however,do not have this drawback.2 Foley 1979.3 Stephens 1970:69, 96.4 West 1976.5 Los Angeles Times 1981b. The tank held sixhundred eighty cubic meters.6 Congressional Research Service 1977:I:13.7 Stephens 1973:34–35.8 Los Angeles Times 1981t.9 Joint Committee on Defense Production1977:I:29.10 Casper & Wellstone 1981; Gerlach &Radcliffe 1979; Lovins 1979, 1980a.11 Foley & Lönroth 1981:25.12 Bass et al. 1980.13 Casper & Wellstone 1981; see also