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But Ray, a former chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, should really not have been surprised by the NRC's seeming indifference. As she must know only too well, waste disposal is one of those problems that nobody in Washington wants responsibility for. A variety of inter agency reports and...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: Wasting Away | 11/6/1979 | See Source »

The United States growing waste disposal problems have been brought to the public's attention in the last month by a series of incidents. First, Ray shut down the Hanford site, causing a slight panic among the nation's universities and hospitals which depend on radioactive maerials for their experiments...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: Wasting Away | 11/6/1979 | See Source »

The history of the federal government's attempts to solve the waste disposal problem is a textbook case in agency buck-passing. In late 1977, the NRC urged the DOE to prepare a contingency plan in case the country's three commercial disposal sites had to be shut down. The...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: Wasting Away | 11/6/1979 | See Source »

In 1978, an inter-agency panel held a very long and very scary set of hearings which considered the radioactive waste disposal problem in some depth. When the panel finished its hearings, it unanimously recommended that the DOE set up regional low-level waste storage sites. The greatest problem, the...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: Wasting Away | 11/6/1979 | See Source »

In 1956 he left behind a residue of chaos, with a former wife challenging his will and a son challenging his brothers even about the disposal of Alex's ashes.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Imperial Alex | 11/5/1979 | See Source »

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