Word: antinuclear
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Polite Police. For months, the Clamshell Alliance, a Portsmouth-based organization founded by New England antinuclear groups, had been planning its strategy and training volunteers in the techniques of nonviolent resistance. Then the alliance marshaled its forces and took the offensive. As the main body of slogan-chanting demonstrators converged on the main gate of the Seabrook site, another group advanced on the area across a salt marsh. A third force arrived in boats piloted by local lobster-men-who fear that the discharge from the plant would cut their catches-and waded ashore. By the evening of the first...
...Antinuclear forces-aided by $75,000 in contributions from Folk Singer John Denver-have waged effective campaigns that may carry the antiplant proposals in Oregon and Colorado. But they have been more heavily outs pent -by a ratio of 7 to 1 in Washington, for example-by utilities and other pro-plant forces, which fear that passage of the proposals will effectively halt any future construction of nuclear power facilities...
...former astronaut-hero is rated by Carter's pollster, Pat Caddell, as the most popular of the contenders. Yet Carter concedes this may be based mainly on the fact that his is the best-known name. Though Glenn has proved industrious in Washington, displaying expertise on energy and antinuclear-proliferation legislation, he has held public office only since 1975, and seems the least adequately prepared of the group to move into the White House...
...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. Still...
...that a nuclear plant had a serious accident that would release lethal radioactivity. Such a disaster, Nader says, could cause "tens of thousands of casualties, billions of dollars in property damages, and long-term contamination of the affected land." To bring this scary message even closer to the public, antinuclear groups in 15 states last week petitioned their respective public utility commissions to order each utility to enclose in bill mailings its plan for evacuating residents from the area of a nuclear accident. Obviously, such plans would emphasize the horrendous consequences of the worst kinds of nuclear-plant accidents...