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...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...
Seaborg's election is also being attacked for less ideological reasons. Earlier this year, two investigators stunned the scientific community by asserting that there would be an extra 32,000 cancer deaths a year if Americans were exposed to the maximum dosages of radiation permitted under the AEC's existing safety standards for nuclear power plants. Ironically, the scientists, Arthur R. Tamplin and John W. Gofman, who have just amplified their case in a book sardonically titled 'Population Control' Through Nuclear Pollution, did their work at Seaborg's old scientific haunt, the Lawrence Radiation...
...even though the A.A.A.S. had not yet acted on Muskie's request, the board members pointed out that one of the organization's committees was already planning to study the environmental effects of power plants, a subject that could easily put the group at odds with the AEC-and thus with its own incoming president...
Seaborg has used similar tactics to meet the emotional challenges of Gofman and Tamplin, who contend that the AEC's policies are nothing less than outright genocide. In response, Seaborg acknowledges the dangers of radiation, yet insists that the AEC's precautions have been more than adequate. Such a reply, however, may not be enough. Public anxiety over the real or imagined dangers of the atom was on the rise even before Gofman and Tamplin unleashed their polemic. One evidence of this is the proliferation of conservationist lawsuits attempting to block construction of nuclear plants...
Although scientists complain that the Atomic Energy Commission, along with the Department of Defense and NASA, gets a disproportionate share of federal research funds, the AEC itself has had to shut down its molten-salt breeder reactor at Oak Ridge. The Bureau of the Budget simply did not release $3,000,000 authorized for it by Congress. This was especially dismaying to environmentalists, because the breeder reactor promises, eventually, to be the cleanest and most efficient fuel source for electric power...