Word: healthful
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Stealing a jump on the President, Senator Edward Kennedy conducted his own hasty investigation. His Subcommittee on Health and Scientific Research summoned, among others, NRC Chairman Joseph Hendrie. Irritated by Hendrie's unflappable, all-too-cool testimony, Kennedy complained: "I would think you would have a greater sense of anxiety than you apparently...
Committee witnesses, like Douglas Costle, head of the Environmental Protection Agency, were more reassuring on the question of the danger to human health. NRC data showed that the largest dose of radiation anyone in the immediate area received was 80 millirems; by comparison, an average American absorbs 200 millirems each year. HEW Secretary Joseph Califano testified that he expected no additional cancer deaths among the population within 50 miles of the plant. He also announced that the Food and Drug Administration was testing food, milk and river and drinking water in the vicinity of the site. No hazardous increase...
...When we get a clearer picture of the true hazards of the atomic industry, we will be better equipped to evaluate the potential consequences. Nuclear power will have become a cost-benefit proposition, which will require us to question the relative importance of our cars, our appliances and our health. It will be a time of tremendous national introspection. Such self-inspection may mean a redefinition of national goals--an admittedly difficult task. But as The Washington Post wrote in its April 1 editorial on Three Mile Island, such a reckoning of the "ethics of risk" must be the ultimate...
Originally, the NRC said it suspected all Babcock & Wilcox reactors (the type of reactor in use at Middletown) had design defects that could promote problems similar to those encountered in Pennsylvania. Early this week, that claim was refuted, and B & W reactors got a clean bill of health...
...Health officials feared that the pastures where Hershey cows graze might be contaminated by radioactivity from the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant. Cows' milk could absorb cancer-causing radioactive material from the grass which the cows eat, the officials added...