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Another blatant attempt to play on gut fears is Question 3. This referendum would impose severe limitations on the future construction of nuclear plants and on the storage of low-level radioactive waste. While this complicated matter rightly elicits concern, a popular vote, especially in this form, is not the way to deal with...
Consider one drawback of a "yes" vote. Recently enacted federal legislation will soon allow Massachusetts and other Northeastern states to dispose of low-level radioactive waste in the region, rather than shipping it west or south as fewer currently do. Delegates from each of the area states are now meeting to come up with a mutual solution. Yet Question 3 requires that Massachusetts voters must, in a subsequent referendum, ratify that agreement...
Scientists at the press conference said they fear that grouping the issue of low-level waste disposal with that of nuclear power will have a detrimental effect on their campaign. "They are two separate issues," said Dr. Francis E. Low, provost at MIT. "A 'no vote is not an endorsement of nuclear power...
Question 3, if passed, would require legislative study and a statewide referendum to approve construction of any new nuclear power plants or low-level radioactive waste disposal sites, and could make it difficult for researchers to find dumping grounds...
...Low-level radioactive materials have been the key substances producing the phenomenal recent a progress of biological research," said Nobel laureate Dr. David Baltimore, director of the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research...