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THIS ARTICLE DISCUSSES THE SOCIAL AND POLITICAL IMPLICATIONS OF ENERGY CHOICES. THE ARTICLE DRAWS EXAMPLES FROM THE THREE MILE ISLAND ACCIDENT TO REVIEW SEVERAL CHARACTERISTICS OF NUCLEAR TECHNOLOGY, ITS SCALE AND COSTS, ITS COMPLEXITY, ITS UNCERTAIN AND UNPREDICTABLE PHYSICAL EFFECTS, AND ITS INDIRECT RISKS.

PAPER COMPARES THE RESPONSES OF THE POLITICAL PARTIES IN FRANCE AND GERMANY TO THE NUCLEAR ENERGY DEBATE WITH REGARD TO THEIR IDEOLOGICAL TRADITIONS AND INTERNAL ORGANIZATIONAL CONSTRAINTS. IT SUGGESTS HOW THESE CONSTRAINTS INTERACTED WITH TECHNICAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE FACTORS TO NEUTRALIZE THE USUAL PROCESS OF POLICY NEGOTIATION IN THE PARTIES.

Frontmatter --Acknowledgments --Contents --Tables --Introduction --I. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology --II. Ménage à Trois: The University, Federal Support, and the Instrumentation Laboratory --III. First Strike: The Research Stowage on March 4, 1969 --IV. Reconnaissance: The Pounds Panel --V. Accommodations and Negotiations --VI. Student Offensive: Confrontation and Crisis --VII. The Decision to Divest --VIII. Universities and the Ethic of Responsibility --Appendix I. Contrasting Assumptions of C. S. Draper and the Activists --Appendix II. Statement by President Howard W. Johnson on the Special Laboratories, October 22, 1969 --Appendix II./ Statement by President Howard W. Johnson on the Special Laboratories, May 20, 1970 --A Note on the Program on Science, Technology, and Society --Abbreviations --Index

Introduction -- I. The need for power versus environmental concerns. Growth of the power industry ; Siting controversies ; Regulated electric power -- II. The local contest. The lake ; The reactor ; The New York State Electric and Gas Corporation -- III. The actors and the action. Plans of the NYSE&G ; Scientific activity ; Citizen activity and NYSE&G response ; Public hearings and political activity -- IV. Salient issues. Economic options of an expanding utility ; Unresolved technical questions ; The behavior of the scientific community in a public controversy ; Policy implications -- Conclusion -- A note on the program on science, technology, and society -- Definitions

Controversies concerning the religious implications of science have grown increasingly strained in recent years. Creation scientists have deployed new strategies to eliminate the teaching of evolution in public schools; right-to-life groups have obstructed fetal tissue research; and clerical groups have criticized genomics and genetic testing. Meanwhile, the Templeton Foundation has begun promoting the idea that there is no conflict between science and religion. In this paper, I explore emerging efforts to reconcile religion and science. I focus particularly on the use of religious imagery and metaphor by scientists as they seek to convince the public of the power of genes or to allay concerns about new technologies. I suggest that their use of Godtalk may reflect both its wider prevalence in political rhetoric in the United States and its instrumental utility in light of the religious implications of contemporary biology.