Word: miles
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...governor is responsible for protecting the people. Without having a governor certify that he could protect the people within a 10-mile radius of a plant is just totally ridiculous...
...officials said the governors did not submit evacuation plans because they felt there was no way that the people within a 10-mile radius of the plants could be evacuated in the event of a nuclear accident...
Seventy-three years after it opened to link the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, the Panama Canal remains one of the engineering marvels of the world. At one end of the 50-mile-long waterway, the 12,000 ships that traverse it annually are lifted 85 ft. above sea level by a series of locks, enabling them to sail through the mountainous spine of the Panama Isthmus. When they reach the opposite coast, another set of locks floats them gently back down to the ocean...
Dukakis has blocked the awarding of an operating license for the New Hampshire plant by refusing to approve emergency evacuation plans for the six Massachusetts communities within the 10-mile emergency planning zone...
...Dukakis and New York Governor Mario Cuomo have managed to block the startup of Shoreham and Seabrook because NRC rules adopted in the wake of the 1979 accident at Three Mile Island, Pa., virtually require state and local cooperation in planning for the evacuation of residents within 10 miles of a reactor in the event of a major accident...