Word: commissioner
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Shapiro describes the problem as "an Alice in Wonderland situation." Universities, he explains, produce very low-level wastes but they must ship them across the country to a place "that should be reserved for high-level materials." With Barnwell effectively shut down, only Hanford and a site in Beattie, Nevada...
The alternative to shipping wastes away is on-site disposal. Timothy Johnson, project manager in the waste management division of the NRC, says the commission is currently looking for methods of solidifying and incinerating radioactive wastes. The University of Maryland, for example, is considering building a $150,000 incinerator for...
Behind the scenes, Paul Kirk, a Washington attorney who is a longtime friend of Kennedy's, started coordinating campaign activities. Young activists with dreams of Camelot II sought him out for jobs. One of the dilemmas facing a Kennedy campaign is what to do about all the earnest amateurs...
Until that date, the pacts stipulate that the canal be administered by a U.S. Government commission. The Administration wanted the commission to be largely autonomous. But conservatives in the House have insisted on nearly complete Government control, chiefly by using annual congressional appropriations to finance the commission's operating...
Disposing of wastes--from low-level radioactive liquids to chemical solids--plagues others besides Harvard, of course. From down river at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission in Washington, the problem of finding sites to store dangerous sludge is growing.