Report Card
Kurtz, Josh
REPORT CARD Josh Kurtz Time Bombs THE NUCLEAR FIX: A GUIDE TO NUCLEAR ACTIVITIES IN THE THIRD WORLD by Thijs de la Court, Deborah Pick, and Daniel Nordquist World Information Service on...
...The Nuclear Fix details how Western corporations have forced atomic energy onto poor nations in a desperate attempt to save the dying nuclear industry...
...Civil rights and equal employment laws must be strengthened, businesses must pledge to work for affirmative action, and state and local governments must remain involved—if for no other reason than to halt the backward drift of Reaganomics...
...In fact, they've slipped lower on the socioeconomic ladder...
...Many have constructed nuclear reactors that don't begin to meet safety standards...
...Political considerations take precedence over the dangers a nuclear site may present, the authors note...
...REPORT CARD Josh Kurtz Time Bombs THE NUCLEAR FIX: A GUIDE TO NUCLEAR ACTIVITIES IN THE THIRD WORLD by Thijs de la Court, Deborah Pick, and Daniel Nordquist World Information Service on Energy, 25 Powers Park, Barrett, MN 56311...
...governments, who favored placing it close to an industrial free-trade zone and two U.S...
...2.00...
...A deadly nuclear mishap may occur any day at one of the fifty-seven nuclear reactors operating in the Third World...
...Most.of these nations depend on the West for technological advice and nuclear materials...
...In this study, Christopher Flavin calls photovoltaics "the ultimate energy technology...
...There is a brief history of nuclear power and an outline of various half-hearted attempts at regulation, as well as a basic review of the adverse health effects of radiation...
...At a time when racial minorities and women are rapidly falling farther behind white men economically, the Administration offers a program that exacerbates those differences and reduces law enforcement capabilities to combat discrimination...
...Though the report only provides figures from these two states, it is clearly a guide to the continuing battle between the Sun Belt and the Snow Belt...
...they have compiled sobering data on nuclear power in the Third World...
...The future of cost reductions looks bright: Photovoltaic costs have dropped 50 per cent in the past five years...
...But the core of this book is an examination of nuclear activities in sixty-one Third World countries...
...By the middle of the next century, he says, the world will probably get 20 to 30 per cent of its electricity from these solar cells...
...Flavin stresses the potential for solar electricity to decentralize power in the Third World...
...The basis for the report is a comparison between the economies and employment patterns of South Carolina and Wisconsin...
...military bases...
...For example, a nuclear power plant is being built in the Philippines on a volcano and near several active earthquake faults...
...That analysis is part of this important study of Reaganomics, prepared by the Wisconsin Advisory Committee to the U.S...
...One little-known technology, however, had been put to important uses before the crisis and is now rapidly, if rather silently, emerging as a plausible source of electricity...
...Cost reduction is the key to solar electricity's current role and future," Flavin notes...
...Free...
...Nevertheless, women and minorities remain grossly underemployed...
...If the United States is ill-prepared to deal with a serious nuclear power plant accident like the one that occurred at Three Mile Island, imagine the disastrous consequences a similar accident could have in a Third World nation...
...Commission on Civil Rights 230 S. Dearborn St., Room 3280, Chicago, IL 60604...
...9.95...
...Sunny World ELECTRICITY FROM SUNLIGHT: THE FUTURE OF PHOTOVOLTAICS by Christopher Flavin WorldWatch Institute, 1776 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20036...
...It is a growth industry, expanding fivefold in the past three years while the world economy grew at a meager 1 per cent annual rate...
...These historic victims of discrimination deserve more equitable treatment by their government...
...These facts were overlooked by both the Philippine and U.S...
...The proliferation of optimistic media stories about energy alternatives during the oil crisis of the mid-1970s has dried up, and for better or worse most of these energy sources have returned to obscurity...
...Twenty-seven more are under construction, and more than 100 are on the drawing board...
...For these reasons, The Nuclear Fix concludes with an urgent call to action: "While we cannot deny its [nuclear power's] history, we can deny its future, especially since that future contains within it the stark possibility of no future at all...
...Commission on Civil Rights...
...The state of Wisconsin has begun to model some of its business incentive programs after South Carolina's, and the Committee warns that the same discriminatory employment patterns could take hold in Wisconsin...
...They pose no environmental dangers and, because they have no moving parts, are reliable and durable...
...In contrast to today's fashionable rhetoric about big government, the Committee concludes that a stronger Federal presence in the states is desirable...
...Falling Further Back BUSINESS INCENTIVES AND MINORITY EMPLOYMENT prepared by the Wisconsin Advisory Committee to the U.S...
...Virtually all communications satellites are powered by photovoltaics...
...Supply-side economics have long been suspected of adversely affecting women and minorities...
...this study provides us with statistical evidence...
...The authors report that tax cuts, deregulation, and incentives to private industry have achieved mixed results at best, but women and minorities have not been among the beneficiaries...
...The earthly uses of the technology remain somewhat limited, primarily because of prohibitive costs, but Flavin predicts that "eventually photovoltaics will become a common rooftop technology throughout the world...
...The authors of this provocative report, the first published by the World Information Service on Energy, don't have to imagine...
...For many among the more than one billion people still living without electricity, photovoltaics represents their best chance for a reliable power supply," he concludes, adding: "Rarely do the world's poorest have a chance to benefit from one of the world's most advanced technologies...
...Solar photovoltaic cells—made of silicon, the second most common element on Earth—convert sunlight directly into electricity...
...South Carolina is considered to have one of the most favorable business climates in the country, so the number of businesses located there has grown in recent years...
...And the spread of nuclear power spurs the likelihood of bomb production...
Vol. 47 • April 1983 • No. 4
