Apr 8 1977
From The Space Library
President Carter announced that the U.S. would "defer indefinitely" commercial reprocessing and recycling of plutonium from nuclear power plants, and would stop developing a commercial breeder reactor (a nuclear power facility producing more fuel than it consumed), the Chicago Tribune reported. Critics had contended the reactor would increase proliferation of nuclear weapons. The administration would significantly increase funding for solar energy research and synthetic production of oil and gas from coal, the paper said. (C Trib, Apr 8/77, 1-2)
INTELSAT, the Intl. Telecommunications Satellite Organization, reported it had appointed three deputy directors general to serve under Director General Santiago Astrain; Reginald Westlake of the U.K. for finance; Andrea Caruso of Italy for administration; and H. William Wood, formerly with the U.S. Navy and Defense Communications Agency and systems management director for ComSatCorp, to supervise operations and development. Transfer of functions from ComSat, cur- rent contractor for management services, to the INTELSAT executive would occur over the next 2yr. (INTELSAT Release 77-5-I)
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