Word: constructionism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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State Rep. Richard Roche, who heralded the Harrisburg accident as the beginning of a "credibility meltdown" for the nuclear industry, calling for a moratorium on new nuclear construction.
"Harrisburg has imposed a de facto moratorium on new nuclear construction," Roche told students Wednesday. He added, though, that "Boston Edison hasn't heard that yet--we have to keep fighting."
A MORATORIUM on nuclear power plant construction--to provide time for a thorough re-evaluation of both atomic reactor safety and waste disposal--is long overdue.
UNTIL AND UNLESS safe reactor operation and waste disposal can be guaranteed, no new atomic plants should be built, and nuclear construction now under way--at Seabrook and elsewhere--should be halted.
On Mar. 28, 1979, safety systems of the Three Mile Island nuclear generating plant malfunctioned resulting in the country's worst civilian nuclear accident. Radiation leaked into the surrounding area and for several days a core meltdown seemed imminent. Besides being a confirmation of the worst fears of nuclear power...