Word: aec
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...years that its jurisdiction covered only the design and the radiation dangers of nuclear power plants. Then six weeks ago, a federal court ruled that the National Environmental Policy Act required the Commission to consider the effect of such plants on the entire environment. That decision, coupled with the AEC's discovery of flaws in the standard emergency cooling system used by U.S. nuclear plants, will delay the operation of ten nearly completed nukes (nuclear plants), 52 others under construction and 31 on the drawing boards. Last week the AEC's new policies were already affecting two communities...
...first nuclear power plant of this size placed close to a large industrial and population center," she says. "We don't want to delay the plant, just study public-interest issues. Yet I'm now everybody's favorite villain." Last week, although it is the AEC's technical and procedural difficulties-not environmental opposition-that is causing the trouble, protesters littered Mrs. Sinclair's front yard with paper and made insulting phone calls...
...nation's largest investor-owned electric utility, has another problem. Its new Indian Point No. 2 nuclear power plant on the Hudson River 35 miles upstream from New York City is almost ready to ease the metropolitan area's growing power shortage. The company has urged the AEC to allow the nuke to begin operating almost immediately, adding that it will later install whatever new environmental safeguards might be required...
This debris, say the plaintiffs, could travel outside the U.S., thus violating the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty of 1963. Even if no materials escape initially from the 6,150-ft.-deep shafts, they argue, later seismic action could shake them loose. Most serious is the claim that the AEC has in fact broken the law by not filing an adequate environmental-impact statement on the test as required by the 1969 National Environmental Policy...
...AEC argues that the test, on which $ 167 million has been spent thus far, will not harm the environment; further, it is vital to the development of weapons for the nation's defense. While radioactive debris has escaped from 68 of 253 underground nuclear tests held in Nevada, AEC officials contend that no leaks have been recorded for tests of more than 200 kilotons. On the other hand, they admit that water contaminated with radioactive tritium could seep through open rock to the Bering Sea and the Pacific Ocean any time within three to 1,000 years. Such uncertainty...