1. All three were managing engineers who had spent most of their careers building reactors, and their defection galvanized anti-nuclear groups across the country. 2. But the Japanese government has long been committed to building more reactors, and has been constrained mostly by finding sites where residents will accept them. 3. Denunciations rolled in from the Arab world and Europe, particularly from France, which had built the reactor for the Iraqis. 4. Even though the reactor had been built by the Soviet Union and its fuel supplied by the Soviets, the officials insisted that Georgia was now a foreign country. 5. For instance, Kadak suggests new pebble reactors could be built without the expensive emergency-cooling systems and safety zones that now surround nuclear plants. 6. Having South Korea play a central role in building the reactors would also expose the impoverished and authoritarian Communist nation to unwelcome influence from the wealthy and capitalist South. 7. In addition, the United States had doubts that China could build the reactors on its own because the original model included parts from Germany and Japan. 8. It says its best prospect for earning that money is to build additional reactors and sell the power. 9. The administration regards the issue of whether South Korea builds the reactors as much more serious than the oil diversion. 10. The nuclear power industry used to build reactors the way the department wants to build Yucca, applying for a license and beginning construction before completing the designs. |