PAGE TWENTY - MANCHESTER EVENING HERALD, Manchester. Conn., Mon., Aug, 14, 1978 Breakthrough may make energy from sea water WASHINGTON (UPI) - Energy uncontrolled form in the hydrogen Stephen Dean, director of the whether fusion is feasible from a Current nuclear reactors use fis­ sea water — there will be no fuel from sea water. bomb, but harnessing it for power Energy Department’s magnetic con­ scientific point of view — there is sion, or the spliting of atomic par­ crisis because of the cost or The weather I That cheap, abundant and safe production has proven more elusive. finement systems division, toid now a scientific basis for embarking ticles. Those plants produce high availability of depletable fuels such power source for the next century The scientists used a small test reporters the successs of the scien­ on engineering deveiopment” of fu­ amounts of radioactive wastes which as oil and natural gas,” Dean said. Hazy sunshine, hot and humd today with highs was suggested by the announcement reactor to produce sun-like tists meant that "for the first time in sion reactors. need to be stored to protect human The reactors use deuterium and around 90 or 32 Celsius. Warm and hazy tonight tritium, which can be derived from that Princeton University scientists temperatures for a moment inside a history, the actual conditions of fu­ Until now scientists had had trou­ health. Their fuel could be used to with patchy fog and low clouds forming again; the hydrogen in sea water, he said. UlanrljfHtpr Eupnttin Ipralii lows 65 to 70. Variable cloudiness, hazy, very had achieved a breakthrough in kind of magnetic “bottie." sion have been produced in a fusion ble designing a reactor capable of produce new atomic bombs. In addi­ In addition, the fusion reactor nuclear fusion. The experiment uses the same reactor in scale model.” containing the sun-like temperatures tion, the plants depend on a limited A Family ISEWSpaper Since 1881 warm and humid Wednesday with chance of an Fusion — the nuclear reaction that power that is in the sun and the He calied it “the most significant of a fusion reaction and producing a supply of uranium. produces “one millionth” of the afternoon shower or thunderstorm; highs in the powers the sun — is the joining of two hydrogen bomb and, if perfected, development in the 27 years of the fu­ sustained reaction that gives off “The advantage (of fusion) for the radioactive waste of a fission reac­ Home deiivered copy 15 cents 80s. Outlook: Chance of thunderstorms Thursday. atomic particles at high temp- could be used to create energy from sion program,” and said: more energy than is needed to world is that the fuel for the fusion tor. “It is considered acceptable Vol. XCVII. No. 268 — Manchester, Conn., Tuesday, August 15, 1978 Generally fair Friday and Saturday. National ratures. It has been duplicated in an sea water. “It has laid to rest the question of trigger it. reactor is universally available from from an environmental point of Newsstand copy 20 cents weather map: page 17. view,” he said, adding that only the walls and the structure of the facility become radioactive and there is no waste product like spent fuel. Carter claims farm economy now stable “We have made a great advance,” said Dr. Harold Furth, one of the Inside today The administration wanted to re­ WASHINGTON (UPI) - President the campus of the University of the bakery industry and members of Carter also had the job of chief Princeton researchers. mind the farmers that its policies, Carter's message for the farmers is Missouri at Columbia. Congress, reassuring corn farmers facing The Princeton experiment involved . Troops keep peace particularly the 1977 Food and Manchester that his policies have stabilized the This is the start of Carter’s last Except for the bakery industry, declining prices because of oversupp- a small reactor called the Torus Agricultural Act, have given farmers agriculturai economy which was on a week before vacation. He leaves for which seeks wheat prices as low as ly- Tokamak, a donut-shaped device Police union plans to meet stability and an end to what they call boom-and-bust roller coaster under his home in Plains Friday, and Mon­ possible, most groups supported a Last week the Agriculture Depart­ using a magnetic field to bottle up tonight to discuss an impasse that the recent GOP boom-and-bust the Republicans. day goes to Idaho and- Wyoming to set-aside similar to this years ment predicted the corn crop would the blazing gas produced by the reac­ Ims developed in negotiations with He scheduled a one-day trip to spend the rest of August visiting policies. program, which allowed price sup­ be 6.5 billion bushels, up 6 percent tion and keep it from touching metal thd town. See page 2, The administration estimates that port payments and loans only to Missouri today to deliver it in person national parks, river rafting, and from the July prediction and up 2 per­ walls it would otherwise melt. The Board of Directors has in Memphis strike net farm income wouid rise by 25 wheat producers who idled 20 percent and to remind fellow farmers that his camping. cent from last year’s record. “The sun uses gravity to keep its voted to extend the rehabilitation administration has reversed last Beginning Sept. 5, the day after percent to J25 billion. Farm exports of their overall acreage. Chicago corn future prices fusion reactions in control, but we loan program to include MEMPHIS, Tenn. (UPI) - Armed city’s pay offer by a lopsided margin. lashing when they were brought year's slumping prices and put Labor Day, Carter will host the sum­ are expected to set a $25.5 billion The set-aside has helped boost reacted by sagging last week. use magnetic fields,” he said. residences occupied by renters as National Guard troops kept an un­ About 50 pieces of firefighting equip­ before City Judge Robert Love, who dollars in their pockets. mit meeting of Israeli Prime record. wheat prices above last year’s September corn futures were just A beanv of hydrogen atoms was well as owner occupied homes. easy peace today in this river city ment subsequently were placed un­ compared the current labor strife Carter was scheduled to speak at Minister Menachem Begin and Egyp­ Carter’s expcted announcement on depress^ levels and helped reduce above $2.13 at week’s end, a little where policemen and firefighters shot through the core of the reactor, See page 2. der the protection of guardsmen at a with a yellow fever epidemic that tian President Anwar Sadat at the a major phase on the 1979 wheat set- acreage to a projected 1.82 billion the annual convention of the Midcon­ over 57 percent of parity. producing temperatures of 60 million ' Manchester Memorial Hospital staged simultaneous strikes for the local armory as a precaution against aside followed wide consultations acres, the first crop below 2 billion nearly wiped out the city a century tinent Farmers Association, a large presidential retreat Camp David, in degrees centigrade for one-tenth of a prepares arguments for an appeal first time ever. vandalism. with farmers, agricultural experts, •acres since 1974. ago. regional agribusiness cooperative, on Maryland's Catoctin Mountains. second. Dean said. Monday against a $830,000 budget With the exception of continued But Fire Director Robert Walker arrests of strikers, primarily for cut proposed by the state Com­ said early today more than 200 of the “It bothers the court to see all of mission on Hospitals and Health violating the dusk-to^awn curfew striking firemen had returned to you here,” Love said. “I wore the Csre. See page 10. imposed by Mayor Wyeth Chandler, work. “They’re still coming,” blue uniform myself. In one part I Memphis was ghostly quiet. Most Walker said. “I think it is a good sympathize with you.” But he told streets were eerily deserted during sign.” the strikers if they come back before East Hartford the 8 p.m. to 6 a.m. curfew hours. An undetermined number of him again, “I ’ll have no alternative The city’s latest labor strife cast a The Head Start program rests firemen were among 26 pickets but to deal with you as severely as pall over events commemorating the ip limbo while the town’s applica- arrested Monday night, bringing to possible.” first anniversary of Elvis Presley’s tira is being reviewed by the Ck>m- more than 90 the number arrested for The city’s 1,400'union-covered death, and businesses relying heavily munity Renewal Team and picketing outside police and fire firemen, all members of the Inter­ on nighttime trade were feeling the federal officials. See page 7. stations in violation of the curfew. national Firefighters Union, have effects of the curfew. School Superintendent Eugene They all were released without bond. been working under court order since Tourists and local residents Diggs gets a $1,500 raise, bringing Some of thp strikers got a tongue- July 4. watched somberly as guardsmen, his annual salary to $33,000. He’s some in armored personnel carriers still the highest paid town armed with .50-caliber machine guns bclUr UKiq employee. See page 7. (\ guarded police headquarters, precinct stations and fireballs and Nyad abandons Connecticut provided escorts for non-striking Austin J. McGuigan, chief firemen answering calls. prosecutor for the Statewide “It is really putting a load on us,” marathon swim Organized Crime Investigative sgid Friendly Cab Co. Manager of banking Task Force, is named to replace Ulyses Nesbit. “About 70 percent of ABOARD THE MISS J.C.