Word: antinuclear
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...Americans looked on the atom as a friend, a cheerful Reddy Kilowatt that would provide cheap, abundant electricity to run their factories, power their TV sets and even chill the beer they drank while watching them. Today much of this enthusiasm has not only evaporated but turned into antipathy. Antinuclear activists have slowed construction of power plants from Seabrook, N.H., to Diablo Canyon, Calif. Angry people in Texas, New Mexico and Washington have packed public meetings to protest government plans to use their areas for nuclear-waste disposal and to demand the removal of wastes already stored there. Countless Americans...
Vigorously dissenting, Justice Byron White insisted that allowing corporations to spend money on political issues unrelated to their business would harm free speech. Corporate money, wrote White, can drown out individual expression. To defeat antinuclear-power referendums, he noted, firms in California outspent the opposition by $2.5 million to $1.6 million; in Montana, corporations raised $144,000 to their foes...
...money and goods for Brittany's hard-hit fishermen; a radio station collected everything from pitchforks to rubber boots. A folk music group offered the earnings from a special new recording about the spill for the cleanup. Thousands of young people seized the catastrophe for political protest, shouting antinuclear-power slogans during a march in the port city of Brest (example: "Oil-covered today, radioactive tomorrow...
...aspect of the plan that is certain to draw the fire of antinuclear groups is the President's offer to have the U.S. store the atomic waste of foreign reactors that use American fuel. Spent uranium rods used in reactors can be reprocessed to yield plutonium, which could be used for military purposes. By holding the spent foreign fuel in the U.S., Washington hopes to curb the global proliferation of nuclear weapons...
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...