■ tits on a boar dept. : Proclaiming October 9 “Leif Erikson Day,” Jimmy Carter referred to Erikson as “that courageous Norseperson.” Bet he wouldn’t have said that to his face.
■ Despite the solid House vote (246-162) authorizing funds for the Clinch River (Tenn.) breeder reactor, the U.S. nuclear reactor industry is in deep trouble: almost no orders. In 1976 there were just three orders for new nuclear power plants, so far this year four. The reason: regulations that stretch out the delivery time to more than ten years and greatly increase the cost, intense environmentalist opposition, and what the nuclear industry perceives as an anti-nuclear stance on the part of the Carter Administration. The bleak outlook for the U.S. nuclear industry could dismantle the advanced technology in this field that has been amassed since World War II. Should present trends continue, the French nuclear reactor industry looks like a good investment.
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