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...potential damage from a single reactor is in the range of tens of billions of dollars and hundreds of thousands of casualities," Nader said...
...Nader, who graduated from the Law School in 1958, criticized the University community for not getting involved with the Massachusetts Public Interest Research Group (PIRG), a group working for the enforcement of nuclear energy safety standards...
...Nader discussed the potential hazards of using nuclear reactors to produce electricity, and said that the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) has been attempting to suppress reports that indicate that nuclear power plants are unsafe...
...Nuclear plants are unreliable: at any given time, one-third [of the 43 reactors in the U.S.] are shut down for repairs and other problems," Nader said. The amount of radioactive material contained in a single reactor varies from one to two thousands times as much as was contained in the bomb dropped on Hiroshima, he said...
Henry W. Kendall, a member of the Union of Concerned Scientists in Boston and professor of Physics at MIT, said before Nader spoke that nuclear power plants in the U.S. have been built hastily, through "massive mismanagement...