Word: comey
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have so far failed to do with their safety campaign: to put a halt to the construction of new nuclear power plants. In the early days of nuclear power, scientists forecast that the electricity from nukes would be "too cheap to meter." Today, points out Nuclear Opponent David Dinsmore Comey, the economic advantage "has turned out to be an illusion...
...breeder is a monster," says David Comey, environmental director for Chicago's Businessmen in the Public Interest. Nuclear Pioneer George Weil agrees, calling the breeder concept "dangerous and unproved." Some objections focus on the use of liquid sodium (a tricky substance that explodes on contact with water and burns in air) as a cooling medium. Others concern the fuel, plutonium, the basic ingredient of the hydrogen bomb and one of the deadliest substances known. Finally, the critics wonder how to get rid of radioactive wastes from any nuclear reactor, some of which remain lethal for 500,000 years...