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Show Sunday, November Second Opinions WASHINGTON - "I think An Stanton Evant make," sayi Dr. Edward Teller. "I am perhaps a better actor than Jane Fonda is a nuclear engineer." nuclear Teller, physicist, has recently been crisscrossing the country, addressing campus and other audiences on nuclear power, and other pressing issues before the nation. It was in the course of these activities that I recently encountered him for a brief but informative interview. A pioneer in the nuclear energy field, Teller is associate director at large of the Lawrence Liver-mor- e Laboratory at the University of California. Based on his decades "Two-hundre- Next Trip, Son Stays Home - people. "What happened to them?" Erie asks. There is no certain answer to be found in the guide books. No sign of sudden violence that would Indicate a defeat in a tribal war. No large collection of skeletons indicating a sudden plague, or starvation, or drought. Apparently, I explained, the tribe after 300 years just picked up in 1500 A.D. and disappeared. Cultures, like people, have a life span, and then they Rumor Mill Grinding On By DICK WEST WASHINGTON (UPI) "No astronauts ever went to the The famous 'landing was filmed at a secret government base in Nevada." "The American Medical Association is secretly subsidizing the tobacco industry because of the im- a contest Omni in mense Beautiful Bigelow 2001 Splush FREE PAD nylon carpet. WITH THESE SPECIALS Four colors to MANY COLORS TO CHOOSE FROM Bigelow Nylo Anyway, ne saw, tnat s not the only work going on at Los Alamos. They have scientists working on laser ray guns which, if they can only work out a few bugs, could vaporize an incoming missile, or an airplane, or anything else. They could even put a huge satellitte out in space, he says, transmitting solar energy to Earth by a powerful laser. 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Pre Weekly moon. magazine is running which a $100 prize is being offered for the best unconfirmed rumor. The periodical says there hasn't been a really good one in circulation since the rumored death of Paul McCartney of Beatles fame in 1968. Rumors it considers up to standard publicity SMB. the smallest warheads are perhaps three times the size of the bottle, small enough to fit down the bore of a howitzer. Most of the thousands of warheads are like that, he explained to Eric, and they have to be distributed around the world where they can be used against suitable targets. army has to have more bullets than there are enemy soldiers, because not every shot is a hit. Again, a clear lack of satisfaction on Eric's face. But, as it happens, on the plane back to Washington, the man sitting next to us turns out to work at Los Alamos. Something to do with weapons design and testing. I seize the opportunity and introduce him to Eric, who asks him the question about the need for so many nuclear warheads. which generated vast about the dangers of radiation release, the levels of radioactivity were relatively modest, within the range of natural background radiation. "Outside the reactor," Teller says, "people did get a little radiation, but no more than an airplane hostess will get in a month. Island, Furniture Speca The Lighter Side Si Fin city-bust- er his questions. I explain that atomic bombs are sort of like bullets, except more so. An SSL hydro-electri- The weapons man explains that it Explosives." Eric begins, "You mean ...?' No, they do not incinerate intruders with atomic land mines; it must be something else. We pass miles and miles of fence surrounding huge buildings tucked away in the mountain forests, cranes that tower over the Ponderosa pines, occasional guard shacks bristling with enough lights and cameras to equip a small television station. "If we already have thousands of nuclear warheads, why do they have to build more of them?" Eric again with 51 I'Uh-P- afe power have also been wildly overstated, in his assessment. Even during the accident at Three Mile safer than competitive sources of energy, such as coal. "Think of the accidents in coal mines," he says. "Think of the polluting emissions, which can be reduced at high expense, but hardly ever eliminated. And compare not only with coal; compare with something very c power. clean, like Collapsing dams have killed thousands. Industrial, regulated reactors have killed none." Radiation dangers from nuclear would be wasteful to use a on a "small" target like a column of troops. He points to the small bottle of wine in front of him and tells Eric that As we drove back, we took a detour through Los Alamos, where the lirst atomic bombs were designed and built. The work goes on still, behind chain link fences topped with barbed wire, decorated with signs saying, "Danger, petite (mine says he's suffering from terminal hunger), nor that the hotel room begins to look like his room back home within minutes of his arrival. It's the incessant questions. Take my son Eric please. As a belated birthday present, I brought him along to Santa Fe, N.M., where I was scheduled to give a talk to the New Mexico Press Association. While there, we took the opportunity to do a bit of touring.'We drove north through the craggy landscape to Bandolier National Monument, a park that surrounds Frijoles, the remains of an ancient Indian pueblo village, carved out of the sandy lava cliffs. Some adobe bricks and tiny cave rooms, their ceilings blackened with the soot of cooking fires, are all that is left of what must have been a crowded, bustling small city of several hundred extra page of commentary, two-thir- HUwb. is not grow tired and disappear. This the sort of answer that satisfies a THE HERALD. Provo, if he is emphatic in contesting widespread fears concerning the safety of this energy source. "There are in the free world," he d notes, electricity generating nuclear plants which nave worked for approximately 10 years. The health of not a single person has been hurt." Contrary to popular misconceptions, he says, a peaceful nuclear reactor cannot blow up like an atomic bomb. "This just can't happen," he asserts. "A reactor is so controlled as to deliver a lot of energy, but slowly. In order to get an explosion, you need rapid delivery." To those who ask what Washington Window By JIM ANDERSON You don't WASHINGTON (UPI) kid on a want to take a business trip. It's not so much the bottomless ap- 1980, it happens anyway, he retors, "The laws of nature will be repealed, and that you can't do with a majority." On the record. 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