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OVER HALF THE medical research going on in Harvard-affiliated laboratories and hospitals may soon grind to a halt for lack of a dumping site for the low-level radioactive wastes it produces. Recently, Gov. Dixie Lee Ray shut down the University's only outlet for waste disposal. Tuesday, she met with officials of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and has now announced that she will not even consider reopening the site until...
...would seem that the creation of a regional dumping site is the obvious solution--but it has met with vehement opposition from New Englanders, who fear that the low-level radioactive wastes are a health hazard. The federal government needs to undertake to determine the effects of the waste storage and the potential of on-site incineration. If, on balance, the dangers of waste outweigh the benefits of the medical research that produces them, then either the medical research should be halted or we should turn to on-site incineration, if it is feasible. If waste storage is safe, Harvard...
...recent shutdown of Harvard's--and the nation's--only low-level waste dumping site has spotlighted the situation...
Harvard, which generated about 100,000 gallons of low-level radioactive waste in 1978, will be forced to cut back on research which generates such wastes this week, unless the University's radioactive dumping site is reopened...
Many professors and researchers in the medical area yesterday said their research produces low-level wastes, and would have to be stopped if they are not allowed to generate any more...