Brittle Power- PARTS 1-3 (+Notes) - Natural Capitalism Solutions

406Brittle Power(killing one worker and injuring more thanthirty sailors) aboard the nuclear-capable carrierJohn F. Kennedy, perhaps set by a sailorseeking to delay her sailing (Bass et al.1980:43), or twenty incidents of sabotageaboard the carrier Ranger in summer 1972(Los Angeles Times 1973).41 Smith 1978:Encl. 2:App. J. #18, #29.42 Subcommittee on Energy and theEnvironment 1979:46. This type of reactoruses highly enriched bomb-grade fresh fuel.43 Beard 1981.44 DeNike 1975.45 Times 1974a; Hansard 1974.46 Smith 1978:Encl. 3:2.47 Ibid.:3.48 Bass et al. 1980:15.49 Barnaby 1975.50 O’Toole 1974.51 Dumas 1980:19.52 E.g., Comptroller General of the U.S.1980.53 Bass et al. 1980:75.54 Times 1974.55 Smith 1978:Encl. 2:Att. A #4; Bass et al.1980:14–15.56 Subcommittee on Energy & theEnvironment 1977:4–5; Bass et al. 1980:15.57 NRC 1976a.58 Times 1975.59 Fialka 1979; Burnham 1979.60 Subcommittee on Energy & theEnvironment 1979:7.61 Burnham 1979b.62 As of January 1978, the limit of error hadbeen exceeded in eight of the previous twelveinventory periods (Subcommittee on Energy& the Environment 1979:7). This is not unusual:for U.S. bomb material accounting as awhole, the statistical alarm bells have beenringing at least a third of the time (Marshall1981b), but the facilities are apparently consideredtoo important to shut down.63 NRC 1978.64 NRC 1979; Smith 1978:Encl. 2:App. J.#47 and cover letter:2; R. Rometsch, remarksto Institute of Nuclear Materials Management,20 June 1975, reprinted in Committee onGovernment Operations 1976:1214–1217.65 de Leon et al. 1978:30.66 Nuclear Engineering International 1974a.67 New York Times 1980c.68 NRC 1981.69 Aspin 1977.70 Dumas 1980.71 Ibid.72 Brennan 1968.73 Ibid.74 E.g., Finley et al. 1980:App. I; AP 1974;Nuclear News 1974; Los Angeles Times 1974,1974a; de Leon et al. 1978:30.75 Finley et al. 1980:H-4.76 E.R. Squibb & Sons, Inc. 1971 (the thyroidupdate was estimated at just under fourmillionths of a curie of iodine-131); Los AngelesTimes 1982n.77 Daily Mail 1979a; Not Man Apart 1981.The exposure was quite large, since thegamma radiation (from three stolen plugsfrom a graphite-moderated reactor) was measuredto be ten to fifteen rads per hour at thecar seat, and the plugs were under the seat forsix months before they were discovered.78 de Leon et al. 1978:30. The isotope usedwas iodine-131.79 Bass et al. 1980:77.80 AP 1974.81 New York Times 1981a.82 Holdren 1974.83 Morrison et al. 1971.84 Okrent & Moeller 1981:71–72.85 NRC 1976.86 Pollard 1979:42.87 Ibid.:46.88 Subcommittee on Energy & theEnvironment 1977:215.89 Ibid.:14.90 Bisset 1958.91 Joint Committee on Atomic Energy 1974.92 Okrent & Moeller 1981:74.93 Dircks 1981.94 Gardner 1981.95 Schleimer 1974:27n8.96 Ayres 1975.97 Gorleben International Review 1979:Ch. 3.98 Comey 1975.99 Pollard 1979:26.100 Chester 1976.101 Gorleben International Review 1979:Ch. 3.102 AP 1977. Strikes have frequently shutdown nuclear construction projects, though arecent no-strike agreement has usually beenobserved. In summer 1981, strikes shut downa Y-12 nuclear weapons component plant at