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A Harvard geology professor, speaking this week at a panel discussion on radioactive waste disposal, recommended criteria for nuclear waste disposal sites that will be selected in coming years.
Raymond Siever, professor of Geological Sciences, said a nuclear waste disposal site "should be an area with granite deposits, without volcanoe and earthquake activity, and with a low population."
The referendum would make illegal any work involving the research, development, testing, evaluation, production, maintenance, storage, transportation, or disposal of nuclear weapons in Cambridge. If passed, the ordinance would take effect on Oct. 1, 1985.
The agency has furthermore demonstrated incompetence at the highest levels, both in allowing waste producers to dump the materials haphazardly in the easiest manner and at the lowest cost--which often means into a city sewer system or a municipal garbage dump--and in not pressing for legislation of better...
Materials contaminated by research are currently sent out of the state to federal disposal sites. The federal sites are scheduled to be closed to-all but the sites are scheduled to be closed to all but the host states beginning in 1985.