Word: antinuclear
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Mark Stephens' account is a valuable reminder that Three Mile Island was more than a three-day sensation for the nation's press, and an invaluable restatement of the undeniable truth of the antinuclear movement. Whatever the truth about lowlevel radiation and the rest, there is a real possibility of failure, human or mechanical, risking a meltdown of a reactor core. With attendant disaster...
...development, it has been the worst of times. Though the U.S. still draws about 12% of its electricity from 70 atomic plants, 15 other nuclear facilities were canceled after last year's accident at Three Mile Island, and no new reactors have been ordered in two years. Meanwhile, antinuclear lawsuits and Government regulations have pushed the startup time for a new plant to as long as 15 years. Costs have increased accordingly...
...against Party Leader James Callaghan's moderates. The left-wingers later won a series of drastic new policy demands: withdrawal from the European Community, unilateral nuclear disarmament and a ban against U.S. cruise missiles on British soil. Although a proposal that Britain should quit NATO was rejected, the antinuclear pledges would effectively end active British participation in the Western military alliance...
...committee raised nearly a million dollars, outspending the plant's opponents by 5 to 1. Most of the supporters' funds came from out-of-state corporations, including utilities, manufacturers and even investment banking firms, which feared that a shutdown in Maine would cause a nationwide antinuclear ripple. On election day, more than half of Maine's voters went to the polls-a record for a single-issue referendum in the state-and voted by 230,000 to 160,000 to keep Maine Yankee open...
...sources as wind, sun and tides will not play a significant role in energy for decades. Meanwhile, nuclear energy and coal remain the only practical answers to an increasingly energy-hungry world. Coal, though, presents enormous investment, transportation and environmental problems. Its real potential is still being questioned. As antinuclear partisans demonstrated outside the hall, Edward Hennelly, former president of the American Nuclear Society, concluded: "I am not unaware of the dangers of nuclear energy, but these concerns are far outweighed by the inevitable international showdowns over energy when the shortage really hits...