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Notes 4051981:2–8.71 Dircks 1981.72 Federal Energy Regulatory Commission1978:15–16.73 Ibid.:16–17.74 Park 1978:40.75 Ibid.:44.76 Ibid.:45.77 Federal Energy Regulatory Commission1978:37. How fast the rotors slow downdepends on their “inertia constant”—their ratioof stored angular momentum to output rating—and on the extent to which the change in linefrequency also changes the load. The lattereffect can be quite complicated.78 Ibid.:17.79 Park 1978:40.80 Economic Regulatory Administration1981:I:2–5. It is largely because of system stabilitylimits that some key long lines, generallyincluding those from Canada, use directcurrent, which is converted from and back toalternating current using special equipment ateach end. This equipment is not only veryexpensive; it is also special-purpose, easy todisrupt, and slow to replace.81 Federal Energy Regulatory Commission1978:47–48.82 Ibid.83 Ibid.:37–38; Clapp 1978:17.84 Fink 1976; emphasis added. We are gratefulto Professional Engineer for permission toreproduce this copyright material.85 Ibid.; emphasis added.Notes to Chapter Eleven1 For further discussion and documentation ofthe subjects of this chapter, see Lovins & Price1975 and Ford 1982 (mainly on safety), andLovins & Lovins 1980 (mainly on proliferation).2 Ramberg 1978, 1980.3 Ramberg 1978, 1980; Norton 1979.4 E.g., NRC 1975.5 Dye 1973.6 Subcommittee on Energy & theEnvironment 1977:8.7 IEAL 1980:I:2–10ff.8 Bass et al. 1980:77.9 Sterling 1978:38.10 Kellen 1979:61ff.11 Bass et al. 1980:6.12 Flood 1976.13 Burnham 1975:32.14 de Leon et al. 1978:29.15 Lewis 1979.16 Marshall 1980a.17 Los Angeles Times 1981ii; Nucleonics Week1981.18 Los Angeles Times 1982b; Marshall 1982.The rockets were reportedly early-1960s forerunnersof the modern RPG-7. One entered anopening in the reactor building but missed thevital components inside. The others’ shapedcharges only made four-inch-deep holes in thereinforced concrete because they weredesigned to penetrate homogenous materiallike armor plate, not heterogenous material.There are, however, other types of warheadsdesigned to penetrate hardened concrete structuresor to spall high-velocity debris off theirinner walls.19 Bass et al. 1980:11.20 Times 1978.21 Nucleonics Week 1982, 1982a; InternationalHerald Tribune 1981.22 Toth 1981.23 Bass et al. 1980:74.24 Ibid.25 Kupperman & Trent 1979:36.26 E.g., Subcommittee on Energy & theEnvironment 1977a:247.27 Los Angeles Times 1976.28 de Leon et al. 1978:29.29 Comptroller General of the U.S. 1977:2.30 Bass et al. 1980:40.31 Ibid.32 Latin America 1978.33 Emshwiller 1980a.34 Los Angeles Times 1979f.35 Wall Street Journal 1979.36 Nucleonics Week 1982b.37 Bass et al. 1980:74.38 New York Times 1979.39 New York Times 1980f.40 Bass et al. 1980:53. Among the mostrecent of these threats (to the Zion plant inIllinois) was delivered by videotape (Green &Rempel 1982: Los Angeles Times 1982g). Thelist omits nuclear-related military incidents—such as eleven cases of arson in three months