Word: disposall
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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"You can't leave nuclear waste lying around indefinitely," geophysicist Sir Edward Bullard told a crowd of 250 last night at the Science Center in a lecture on "Disposal of Nuclear Waste at Sea."
THE ADVENT OF fission technology has vastly increased man's self-destructive potential, and has emphasized the imminence of holocaust. In addition to all the problems of industrial waste management and disposal, we are now faced with a more powerful threat--that of radiation poisoning.
Secondly, the use of nuclear power necessitates our complete and perfect control of this resource to avoid massive and perhaps final disaster. Nuclear power advocates will admit that the chance of nuclear meltdown exists, though it is a very, very slim possibility. Are nuclear power plants as safe as Hooker...
The proponents of nuclear power compound their irresponsibility with the cavalier attitude they take toward the issue of nuclear disposal. They do not foresee any problems with their methods of nuclear waste disposal. Neither did the managers of the West German power plant which recently released radiation into the atmosphere...
Even though nuclear waste-disposal problems have not been solved, your author calls for speeded-up licensing of nuclear plants. With that kind of logic, it's not surprising that you have the gall to call opponents "irrational."