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Last Tuesday the Living Newspaper included seven short dramatizations. One centered on new regulations for nuclear plant security that are used to justify surveillance and harassment of anti-nuclear groups and leftist organizations. Another touched on recent Supreme Court decisions that seem to limit the rights of minority groups...
...scale development of nuclear power throughout the nation will be removed. The California referendum was the first of a series that safety crusaders are trying to force. Proposals similar to Proposition 15 will be put to Oregon and Colorado voters in November, and efforts are under way to get anti-nuclear measures on the ballot in at least seven other states: Arizona, Maine, Michigan, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma and Washington. The chances that any will be passed have obviously been weakened by the California defeat. A few months ago, Consumerist Ralph Nader predicted that public opposition within five years would...
...raise money by giving rock concerts. Movie Star Robert Redford also joined their cause. The anti-nukes sent up to 5,000 young people a weekend on doorbell-ringing visits throughout the state. They harped on the idea that a reactor meltdown could release a cloud of radioactivity that, in the words of one pamphlet, "could contaminate hundreds of square miles, forcing you to abandon your home, bankrupting your employer and giving thousands of children thyroid cancers." Toward the end, the anti-nuclear forces tried to portray the vote as a classic confrontation between ordinary citizens and big business, which...
More questionably, the pro-nukes argued that an anti-nuclear vote was in effect a vote for higher electric bills, more air pollution (since California power plants would have to burn more coal and oil) and mass unemployment. They also contended that if nuclear construction were stopped, California would face a power shortage, since atomic plants are expected to generate 23% of its electricity by the year...
...handful of those with reservations about atomic plants seemed concerned enough to try to do something about them. But the anti-nuclear forces seem to be gathering momentum. Last month a trio of middle-level engineers at GE's nuclear-energy division in San Jose, Calif, suddenly resigned their jobs in protest. The trio, Dale Bridenbaugh, 44, Gregory Minor, 38, and Richard Hubbard, 38, announced that they would instead work full time for Project Survival, the organization coordinating the anti-nuclear referendum drive in California. Another engineer, Robert Pollard, 36, quit his job with the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission...