A NUCLEAR PHOENIX?

摘要

Sitting in the belly of the beast-Dominion's 2,000-megawatt Millstone nuclear power plant in Waterford, Connecticut-the com- pany's chief nuclear officer, Dave Christian, seems an unlikely environmentalist. But he says concern about climate change is what got him involved in the peaceful pursuit of the atom in the first place. "I started studying climate science in the 1970s after reading a book [published in 1974] entitled Technology, Society and Man by Richard C. Dorf," Christian says. "It was a very thoughtful study of the feedback mechanisms that go into global warming."