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...voice rose, according to observers, as she described her futile attempts to contact Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) officials the night before. She said she made "extensive efforts" to reach the NRC "but there was no one there, there was no emergency number and no 24-hour manning" like there used to be. An indignant Ray said she considered the situation "incomprehensible" and with a less-than-discreet reference to Three Mile Island, reminded the NRC that "emergencies do occur...
...former chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, should really not have been surprised by the NRC's seeming indifference. As she must know only too well, waste disposal is one of those problems that nobody in Washington wants responsibility for. A variety of inter agency reports and meetings have addressed the problems, but most of them are gathering dust on agency shelves. Up and down the Potomac, in fact, they're trying to sidestep the problem. Reactors and laboratories are generating hazardous materials at unprecedented rates--but nobody wants to play garbage-collector...
JUST OUTSIDE WASHINGTON D.C. today, more than a month after Ray shut down the Hanford site, the three governors will sit down with NRC officials and talk about their problems. The issue, though not very attractive, seems fairly clear-cut. The nation is producting a lot of radioactive waste--ranging from the really dangerous stuff that reactors generate to laboratory brands no more radioactive than the human body--and there is no place...
...history of the federal government's attempts to solve the waste disposal problem is a textbook case in agency buck-passing. In late 1977, the NRC urged the DOE to prepare a contingency plan in case the country's three commercial disposal sites had to be shut down. The NRC identified a "Clear potential for disruption," and suggested--as Illinois Gov. James Thompson recommended last week--opening the government's 14 existing sites to commercial waste generators. Nothing was done...
Indeed, the Three Mile Island accident has prompted some finger pointing that nonetheless indicates salutary soul searching. Says the NRC, in a report of its own: ''Everyone connected with nuclear power technology must accept as a fact that accidents can happen. Operations personnel in particular must not have a mind-set that future accidents are impossible. The experience of Three Mile Island has not been sufficient to eradicate that mind-set in all quarters, and the effects of that experience will fade with time. We have no easy answer to suggest, but attitudes must be changed...