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COLORADO--Federal marshals arrested at least 150 anti-nuclear activists trained in civil disobedience Sunday when the protesters marched in front of the Rocky Flats nuclear weapons plant about 16 miles northwest of Denver. Rocky Flats is the nation's only producer of plutonium "triggers" for nuclear weapons...
...Other anti-nuclear demonstrations were staged over the weekend at a ski slope in Vermont, on a farm in Arkansas, on the banks of the Hudson River in New York, and on a Navajo reservation in New Mexico...
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...attention on Three Mile Island may eventually prove a blessing. With public interest in the atomic energy issue aroused by the newly released movie, The China Syndrome, the latest in a long series of nuclear-related miscues received an inordinate share of media attention. Three Mile Island was the symbol of all that was wrong (or could go wrong) with a nuclear reactor: the anti-nuclear activists couldn't have staged a better dramatization of their fears...
Morland's association with the Progressive began last year after he was introduced to Samuel H. Day Jr., the magazine's associate editor and an anti-nuclear campaigner. Ironically, Morland had once intended to become a nuclear scientist, but a few introductory courses at Atlanta's Emory University convinced him otherwise. He majored in economics, spent five years as an Air Force pilot and held down various jobs. His first contribution to the Progressive, a 3,400-word piece on tritium, a form of hydrogen used in H-bombs, appeared in February...