Nuclear Energy:
"Before Three Mile Island, I was comfortable with the record of nuclear energy," writes Alvin M. Weinberg, one of the pioneers of atomic power. Yet long before the accident in Pennsylvania last March, Weinberg was worried about the siting, design, man- agement, and operation of the 70 commercial U.S. nuclear power plants that today provide more than 10 percent of the nation's electricity. Short on oil and coal, some countries, nota- bly France and South Korea, are "going...