Word: aec
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...forming. The issue is a mammoth nuclear power station just built in the Connecticut River Valley at Vernon, Vermont. This reactor, designed by General Electric to generate 513,900 kilowatts of electricity, has not yet begun production pending final approval by its mother, the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), and its host, the state of Vermont...
...Vernon plant is one of the first of between 50 and 100 atomic reactors with which the AEC plans to blanket the-Northeast before the year 2000, and it raises some important questions about the Nuclear Nirvana envisioned for America by utilities, the AEC and electricity fiends in general...
When these dangerous materials are removed they are transported over highways or railroads to a reprocessing plant. By 1963, with only ten operating reactors, the AEC had reported 47 accidents in waste shipment, including 18 spills and 15 "severe impact accidents." Vernon's wastes would be taken to the Nuclear Fuel Services facility in West Valley, New York. This plant, run by the Getty oil interests, is notorious for its tendency to continue sending employees into high radiation areas until they have received the maximum legal dose. Of 80 employees on strike in late 1969, 70 had received more than...
Another drawback of the Vernon reactor is its operational requirement to release low-level radioactive liquid and gaseous wastes from time to time. The AEC contends that these wastes are harmless. But a recent paper has shown remarkable correlation between changes in infant mortality and radioactive gaseous discharges in Illinois in the area surrounding the Dresden No. 1 power station (a BWR of one-third the capacity of Vernon) over the past ten years. Dresden's annual effluents ranged from 34,860 to 800,000 curies from...
...were protests. In Berkeley, 2000 demonstrators were met by police with rifles. One policeman was isolated in the crowd when he tried to retrieve a nightstick that had been stolen. He was severely beaten, and was treated for lacerations. Police charged the crowd, which fled, and later burned an AEC official...