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Such a disaster was investigated by the AEC in its own Brookhaven Report, which suggested that reactors one-fifth the size of current models could contaminate up to 150,000 square miles of land, kill 3,400 people outright, cause 55,000 premature cancer deaths, and force evacuation of 450,000 people for over one year. An additional 4 million might have to be kept under close surveillance. Damage could exceed $7 billion. Such a peace-time, man-made catastrophe boggles the imagination. And physicist-writer Dr. Ralph Lapp has said he feels "Before the year 2000 it would appear...
...will be no full-scale test of emergency systems at Vernon before 1973 or 1974 because the test facility has been delayed in construction. Testing will take place at the National Reactor Testing site near Idaho Falls, but results will not come before 1975. And, as Dr. Milton Shaw, AEC director of reactor development, testified before Congress, "Seventy-one utilities and twenty architect-engineering firms are working on nuclear power plants. Most of these personnel are trying to build the first nuclear plant they ever built...
REACTORS are licensed under the Research and Medical Section of the Atomic Energy Act. They have not yet been deemed of "practical value" by the AEC, according to the act. Yet over 92 are now being actually designed. In short, nuclear power plants are colossal experiments, with entirely untested emergency systems, poorly defined construction standards, built by complete novices. Is this why no insurance company in the nation will cover the risk involved? In fact, no utilities would consider building nuclear plants until the Price-Anderson Act of 1957 absolved them of all financial responsibility. The government, under this form...
...estimate that there are over 300 years of fossil fuels left-coal, shale, oil, natural gas-and that geothermal, fusion, solar, magneto-hydrodynamics and other clean power technologies are just around the corner, why the rush for fission? These other power technologies haven't been given a chance. The AEC spends 83 per cent of its research dollar on fission power. Con Edison spent more on advertising last year than on all research. In fact, over ten times as much is spent on advertising for electricity as is spent on research into non-fission power sources...
...result Senator Mike Gravel (D-Alaska) has announced a bill to call for a moratorium on reactor building and the creation of a national energy agency to oversee the AEC and stop reckless proliferation of atomic reactors...