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...radioactive materials, widely employed in medical and scientific research, are a major source of the low-level wastes which would be affected by the referendum. Other sources includes nuclear power plants and some types of industry...
Representatives of six Boston-area research institutions including the Medical School, yesterday sharply criticized a proposal on the November 2 state ballot which would curtail dumping of low-level radioactive wastes in Massachusetts...
This extremely low-level waste will probably be exempted from the regulations Johnson said...
Spokesman for all three companies and Cannon of the DOE say there have been no significant safety problems at any of the government-affiliated plants. But a recent IRRC report notes increasing widespread concern in the scientific community that low-level radiation escaping from the nuclear plants results in cancer after prolonged exposure...
...opinion. In a 1978 appearance at the Oxford Union in England, Nixon put Watergate into the context of his successes in foreign policy. "It was these little things that I failed in," he said. Watergate, he has suggested all along, amounted to little more than an unfortunate series of low-level mistakes and stupidities that he was too busy to notice and correct...