Word: meltdown
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Dates: during 1976-1976
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...some scientists, enlisted Singer John Denver to raise money by giving rock concerts. Movie Star Robert Redford also joined their cause. The anti-nukes sent up to 5,000 young people a weekend on doorbell-ringing visits throughout the state. They harped on the idea that a reactor meltdown could release a cloud of radioactivity that, in the words of one pamphlet, "could contaminate hundreds of square miles, forcing you to abandon your home, bankrupting your employer and giving thousands of children thyroid cancers." Toward the end, the anti-nuclear forces tried to portray the vote as a classic confrontation...