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...Kremlin issued a three paragraph statement last night saying work was under way to decontaminate housing near the power plant. Soviet television broadcast footage of the evacuated 18-mile zone around the plant, showing some decontamination workers in gas masks and other people in street clothes...
...cadets are required to spend a minimum of two hours in classes and several hours in drilling per week. They must also prepare themselves to take the Army's physical fitness test which requires the men do 40 situps and 40 pushups in two minutes each and the two-mile run in 17 minutes and 55 seconds...
...collection of consumer, environmental and scientific groups known as the Coalition of Environmental/Safe Energy Organizations called for a complete phaseout of nuclear power plants in the U.S. In Pennsylvania, protesters in Lancaster and Dauphin counties vowed to increase efforts to prevent the reopening of the reactor at Three Mile Island that was not involved in the 1979 accident there. In New Hampshire and on New York's Long Island, antinuclear forces stepped up their campaigns against licensing of the Seabrook and Shoreham plants, arguing that what happened north of Kiev could just as easily happen there. "The accident at Chernobyl...
Nonetheless, Chernobyl cannot help having an impact on the beleaguered U.S. nuclear industry. Even before the accident at Three Mile Island melted down the credibility of pronuclear organizations, the industry was in trouble. Caught between climbing construction costs, high interest rates and unexpectedly slow growth in the demand for electricity, American utilities stopped ordering new nuclear plants in 1978. After the accident at Three Mile Island, some reactor salesmen tossed away their order books entirely...
...Harvard women's swimming and diving team will host a mini-triathlon this Sunday, May 11. The event, which will kick-off at 7 a.m., will include a 800-meter swimm, a 12-mile bike ride, and a 4-mile...