Word: anti-nuclear
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...anti-nuclear drive is not unique to California. At least 17 states are now considering various measures to curtail nuclear power. Passage of Proposition 15 in California could thus have far-reaching effects on the power debate in these states...
...event, the three engineers decided on their move last December, but did not act immediately. Aware that their resignations could help the anti-nuclear cause, they planned their move with another C.I.F. member, James Burch, who is also president of Project Survival, a citizens' group currently urging Californians to cast antinuclear votes in June. Burch helped them to orchestrate their announcement for maximum effect. GE officials quickly attempted to downgrade the significance of the resignations, pointing out that there are hundreds of people in the nuclear industry who are convinced that nuclear reactors can be designed to operate safely...
...example, it does not even consider sabotage as a cause of nuclear accidents, a possibility that especially troubles Ralph Nader. Nor does it investigate the additional risk of accident involved in the new generation of gas-cooled reactors or the next generation of fast-breeder reactors. In addition, anti-nuclear critics like the Union of Concerned Scientists in Cambridge, Mass., vow to scrutinize WASH-1400 for any oversimplification, any error in calculation or method that might discredit the work...
...should go to the breeder through fiscal 1979. Another $1.25 billion would be spent to improve conventional nuclear plants, which are expected to produce more and more of the U.S.'s electricity; the lion's share-almost 60%-would be for making safer reactors and thus quieting anti-nuclear critics...
After receiving an honors BA from Princeton in 1958, he went to the London School of Economics to study political philosophy. While participating in anti-nuclear campaigns, he met Lord Russell. Schoenman feels it is "very flattering, but a bit fatuous," to be considered the eminence grise behind the 95-year-old philosopher. "What's it done with--telepathy?" he asks sarcastically...