Blowing in the wind: weapons-plant conversions. (converting nuclear plants to alternative energy source production) (American Survey)
Economist (US), The, November, 1994
DURING the cold war, the Department of Energy ran 22 nuclear-weapons factories. Today, all 22 are supposed to be adjusting to peace: using labs for commercial ventures, producing new kinds of power. At Rocky Flats, a 6,550-acre site 15 miles west of Denver, four windmills are already up. They jut above plutonium vaults at the base of the Rocky Mountains, promising with each revolution to generate electricity as part of a National Wind Technology Centre. In Nevada, another weapons factory is being fitted with photo-voltaic panels to collect energy for a solar-power plant.
"This is not your father's Department of Energy," said Hazel O'Leary, the energy secretary, at a recent square dance in Utah. One glance at Mrs O'Leary confirmed that. Unlike her suited...
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