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Spokesmen 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...

Author: By Michael J. Abramowitz, | Title: Making Bombs With Harvard's Bucks: University Investments in Nuclear Arms | 6/10/1982 | See Source »

...down on the San Carlos inlet from the west and from the south, their pilots showing little regard for safety as they tried to get at the fleet. In groups of up to three at a time, they raced the full length of the San Carlos anchorage on their low-level attacks. At times they flew so low that spray flecked their canopies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Falkland Islands: Explosions and Breakthroughs | 6/7/1982 | See Source »

...officials were expecting a major rebel offensive before March 28, but the guerrillas launched only a handful of low-level probes around San Salvador last week. On Monday, groups of insurgents attacked army posts in the suburbs of Cuscatancingo, Mejicanos and Villa Delgado. Next day, rebels opened fire on the army-escorted funeral procession of two civil guardsmen killed in the Cuscatancingo clash, causing the mourners to scatter and abandon the cortege...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Central America: A Country Up for Grabs | 3/29/1982 | See Source »

Croydon was a good battleground. The electorate covered a wide spectrum: working-class flats, a few affluent neighborhoods, and street on street of red brick houses occupied by skilled workers and low-level managers. For weeks, the big names of all three parties, including former Tory Prime Minister Edward Heath and Labor Leaders Michael Foot and Denis Healey, campaigned hard for their candidates. Although Pitt had earlier refused to stand down in favor of Shirley Williams, he was supported by the S.D.P.'s top team-William Rodgers, Roy Jenkins, David Owen and Williams-as well as by Liberal Leader...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britain: Breakthrough | 11/2/1981 | See Source »

...another 15 plants are set for completion by 1985. Yet a major mishap last March at a reactor in Tsuruga, where a ton of radioactive water leaked into nearby coastal waters, captured national headlines and fueled opposition to atomic power across the country. Japanese officials last year proposed dumping low-level wastes into the Pacific, but an international wave of protest quickly forced them to table the plan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Extended Nuclear Family | 10/26/1981 | See Source »

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