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Even faster than that, news of the vote by 40% of Sacramento's electorate spread fresh hope among the opponents of nuclear power all over the U.S. The development countered a bleak mood stirred up among antinukers recently by two Nuclear Regulatory Commission actions. In the first, the NRC issued an operating permit to New York's Shoreham nuclear power plant, though its owner, the Long Island Lighting Co., had agreed to dismantle it. Then the NRC decided to permit a limited go-ahead for the controversial Seabrook, N.H., nuclear power plant. Thousands of activists demonstrated against the start...
...substantially" reduce the threat of a host of other ailments, including cancer, stroke, high blood pressure, obesity, osteoporosis and liver disease. Just how to do this is described in the guidelines, which were prepared by a 19-member panel after a review of more than 5,000 studies. The NRC group not only crystallizes the broad dietary goals laid down by earlier reports but also extends them to children...
...said NRC officals found that an accident would break Pilgrim's containment system only once in 10 million reactor years, because it includes dozens of safety features...
...Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) will decide later this fall whether to open the reactor. Massachusetts officials testified against reopening at a hearing last week...
...safety, Nogee said the plant is cooled by corrosive salt water, has suffered 16 years of "management abuse" and has a containment design which the NRC has found would fail in 90 percent of all serious accidents...