Word: mits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Cambridge City Council, with the aid of six Harvard and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) officials, 20 anti-nuclear demonstrators and Santa Claus, debated the dangers of low-level radioactive waste last night...
Vellucci was referring to the representatives of Harvard and MIT who spent more than an hour trying to convince the board that the waste, produced by medical experimentation, was harmless...
...There is as much radioactivity in a pound of butter as there is in one of our scintillator counting vials," a representative of MIT told the council. "These wastes are packed in little bitty glass jars," he added...
University officials stressed that the crisis is mostly over. "The Washington dump will reopen soon," Walter Milne, an MIT spokesman, said, adding that MIT had never been in immediate danger of having to stop research efforts...
...three members--Richard Wilson, professor of Physics and the committee's chairman, and Susan Wiltshire, head of the Massachusetts League of Women Voters--said the proposal would probably be included when the panel makes its final report at the end of this year. (The third member. George W. Rathjens, MIT professor of political science and a well-known physicist, could not be reached for comment...