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...Boston City Council voted down both a permanent and a one-year moratorium on condominium conversion yesterday, and instead sent the issue to a council subcommittee for a report...
During the moratorium, the NRC will establish more stringent safety regulations for the 72 nuclear plants that now generate 11.5% of the nation's electricity as well as for the 92 plants still under construction. The new rules will include two of the most urgent recommendations of the presidential commission, which was headed by Dartmouth President John Kemeny. One was for stiffer training of plant operators. The other was for emergency evacuation plans for people living within a ten-mile radius of nuclear plants...
Industry spokesmen denounced the moratorium. Said Carl Walske, president of the Atomic Industrial Forum: "The nation can ill afford an indefinite hold on nuclear licensing or one that is subject to politically inspired delays...
Carter and Kennedy also have different attitudes toward the alternatives to our long-standing dependence of fossil fuels. On nuclear power, Carter has yet to forsake his support of the "peaceful atom." He has not even taken the moderate step of calling for a moratorium on new plant construction until more is known about its hazards. Kennedy has come out for a moratorium...
...commission's findings were cause enough for some Congressmen to change their minds about a ban. Said Arizona Democrat Morris Udall: "I now lean to the conclusion that there should be a moratorium until the industry and regulators get their houses in order.'' A moratorium of sorts already exists. There have been no new orders for nuclear plants in 1979; utilities are reluctant to invest in them because of costly delays in obtaining licenses. Thus, as Hart points out, "the future of the industry is going to be determined as much on Wall Street as in Washington...