ant [ha dics valet T CE N A proect that took a great deal of my time and energy during the periodi975-79 was the work of the National Acxadefly of Science on Nuclear & Alternative Energy Systems. Committee There were about a half-dozen pmpma people on the Committee and this book is the Keports issued in 1980. | Berge: A The Committee on Nuclear and Alternative Energy Systems? Kohn: Yes. It's a good book because the United States is running into, —7 the world, not just the U.S., is going to run into a shoratage of fuel to produce electgri¢city. Obviously, nuclear substances are one of the fuels to produce electricity. But most people somehow or other feel that we can find a substitute for them, that we don't have to use nuclear energy to produce electricity, that we can get our energy from the sun, the wind, etc. This Report lays a baseline for such discussion. aspectsm of the discussion in this book. I did the radiological That a great interest of mine, and a fr very important one from a practical point of view, and in its way more important than many of the the on-going topics in radiation biology. More recently, I have written a review of The Nuclear Lion by John Jagger, ar i TW. L , ; going to give you a copy of it. \ . . , ; Jagger's book is what you might call a continuation rt of what the Report says about radiation. Affe ” eview is really a very good summary of Wy his book, so that if you read it you almost don't have to read his book. Berge: Kohn: 402 pages. That's why I'm saying it. I know the predicament you would be in if you read everything that people threw at you; you'd never get through. think my review very fairly Jaggerl. But I Now that point of view is not a popular one in the united Statedtoday, but time will tell as to whether or not it is necessary to adopt it. This problem, as you can see, has been a major interest of mine. -Ter RO ~