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David Dickson contributes his third weekly article on science in the American West with a report on farm workers in California, who are using university officials over the social consequences of agricultural research
Most of the plans for a reprocessing plant at Gorleben are only drafts after all. Klaus Höpfner reports on surprise developments at the hearing into West Germany's ‘Windscale’