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Thomas Alva Edison is placed apart from the mainstream of history. He invented the light bulb and the phonograph, improved the telegraph, telephone and movie projector, and developed a system for distributing electrical power to homes and businesses over broad areas. But most who survey American history view Edison as an eccentric anomaly, and leave his life and work to the historians of wizardry or of science. Conventional histories deal with technological development as though it were an independent force, growing without any influence from the men who in fact produced it. But to ignore an inventor as part...
State environmentalists then gave the plant preliminary approval. Residents of Boston's Mission Hill neighborhood, the utility company Boston Edison and other opponents of the plant have until the end of the month to unearth new data if they are to convince the division to change its mind...
Construction work seems to have a clear path ahead now, but there are still possible obstacles in the offing. A suit to stop the plant, brought by Boston Edison, is still awaiting a verdict from the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court...
Although the partially-constructed plant has been the focus of a prolonged controversy involving angry residents, critical public health researchers and the giant utility company Boston Edison, the idea behind the total energy plant is appealing in its simple rationality...
Each 1000 megawatt reactor (the planned Boston Edison Pilgrim II plant will be 1180 megawatts) produces as much high-level waste as 1000 Hiroshima-sized bombs each and every year. There are over 28 different radioactive substances routinely emitted from these nuclear reactors, all of which are ecologically dangerous and some of which, such as strontium-90 and cesium-131, will be a disposal problem for 600 to 1000 years. The most deadly emission, of course, is plutonium. Its lethality is such that one-millionth of a gram is sufficient to cause lung cancer--and a large reactor annually produces...