Senate committee kills fast breeder

India and Fast Breeder Reactors

India has long pursued a fast breeder program, motivated in part by the availability of only poor quality uranium resources within the country. But progress so far has been disappointing, with only one test reactor having been constructed and having a chequered operating history. The larger Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor that is being constructed has a design that compromises safety and will pr...

Liquid Metal Fast Breeder Reactors

A study of future energy requirements and of the potential of various energy sources (coal, oil, gas, nuclear power, hydropower and solar energy) indicates that the contribution to be made by nuclear fission, now competitive with conventional energy sources, will grow steadily over the next few decades. Whereas the amount of fuel which has to be fabricated each year for the operation of a nucle...

Personalities versus Structure: the Fragmentation of the Senate Committee System

How positive this statement would have been had it been any chair’s statement when presenting a series of Senate committee reports on the goods-and-services tax. In fact, it was a statement by the Chair of the then Senate Constitutional and Legal Affairs Committee, Senator James McClelland, on 15 October 1974. At that time, such unanimous reports constituted the norm for Senate committees—even ...

Testimony Before the Special Committee on Aging, United States Senate

It is an opportune moment for this discussion. Thanks in large part to improvements in health care, life expectancy has been extended at unprecedented rates, both in our country and around the world. The number of people over age 65 is growing especially rapidly in countries like the United States that experienced sharp increases in birth rates shortly after World War II, nearly 70 years ago. F...

to the Chairman , Committee on Finance , U . S . Senate