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Environmentalists predicted earthquakes or other disasters when the Atomic Energy Commission exploded a one-megaton nuclear device on Alaska's Amchitka Island in 1969. In fact, the feared mishap did not occur. Now the AEC is back for another round, and so are the environmentalists...
Last week a group called the Committee for Nuclear Responsibility, with headquarters in Washington, D.C., and co-chaired by Nuclear Physicist John Gofman, former U.S. Senator Charles Goodell and New York Poet Leonore Marshall, brought suit in Washington's U.S. district court against the AEC. The suit noted that the underground tests, to be detonated on Amchitka in October, will be five times more powerful than the 1969 blast. It charged that such an explosion would do irreparable harm to the environment and asked the court to stop the test...
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...
Petitions for a hearing on the operating license application for the Pilgrim nuclear power plant should be made in conformation with AEC rules, which the local newspapers should publish, and be sent...
...different way, the Atomic Energy Commission has retarded the development of coal supplies. A few years ago, the AEC was so carried away by the appealing prospects for atomic power that it predicted a vast expansion. Those hopes were thwarted by soaring construction costs, a nationwide squeeze on capital funds, shortages of trained personnel, delays in delivery of equipment, and environmentalists' objections to the thermal pollution of waterways, which can be caused by nuclear plants. The main result of the general euphoria, to which the AEC contributed, was that mining companies held back on developing coal reserves for fear...