Word: antinuclearism
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During the afternoon rally the crowd browsed through alternative energy exhibits and displays of antinuclear information...
...some residents are equally vociferous in support of nuclear power. "Cowards making a big deal over a little accident," is how a burly fellow who identified himself only as Pete described the antinuclear people. Pete reinforced his views by removing his jacket; on his bright red T shirt was a representation of the famous cooling towers and the words "T.M.I. Staff -We Stayed BEHIND . . . to save yours...
...friends believe that nuclear power still has a future, and even many antinuclear people in the area acknowledge that they are probably correct. To be sure, there is stubborn opposition to reopening the disabled and discredited Unit 2 when the cleanup is over. Met-Ed estimates it will take at least three years (federal authorities put the figure closer to five). But Middletowners are resigned to the fact that the company will probably start up the nuclear reactor in Unit 1 some time around the end of the year. Unit 1, which was undamaged by the accident in its sister...
...credits "the common sense, the intelligence of Frenchmen who have understood perfectly well that we have no important energy resources of our own and that to work, to have jobs, to heat ourselves and to be productive we had to have energy." No major party, including the Communists, is antinuclear. At the same time, France is a highly centralized state that, for better or worse, lacks the legal and administrative checks that allow small pressure groups to halt billion dollar projects. So confident is Giscard of his ability to press a needed program that the week after the accident...
...construction jobs, at least in the short run. On such issues delicate compromises are necessary to keep the coalition together. "I'd like to get the building trades to come out for human-scale, non-corporate solar power," Harrington told The Crimson, "even if they won't endorse our antinuclear position...