Word: nuke
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Seabrook residents have twice voted against the plant in town meetings. Seven neighboring towns have also voted to join Seabrook in upholding their traditional right to home-rule--local self-determination in some areas of jurisdiction, including whether to locate a nuke in town. This right has been totally overrun. New England residents have fought through years of regulatory and licensing procedures to stop the plant, but after numerous court orders to halt construction--and subsequent higher court overrulings of these orders--construction continues at the rate of three shifts...
...wants to. All the surrounding towns have voted against allowing transport of radioactive wastes through their communities, but the project goes on. New Hampshire residents voted out their knee-jerk rightwing governor, Meldrim Thompson, almost solely on the issue of CWIP (Construction Work in Progress) charges for the Seabrook nuke, a system that allows the utility to charge higher rates to electricity users in advance for a power plant still under construction. Under the anti-CWIP, pro-nuke new governor, the plant lurches forward. There seems to be no way to stop...
...Cambridge referendum if passed on the November ballot would request the state and federal governments not to license the construction or operation of any new nuclear power plants. But for now the anti-nuke furor hasn't reached...
William E. McKibben's article on the anti-nuke rally at Seabrook misses the central point of the gathering--education. McKibben states everyone there had already decided that they were anti-nuke, and they were just hearing things they already knew. Still, when I talked with people there, I ran into some who were participating in the anti-nuke movement for the first time, and had come simply to find out what it was all about. I was one of them...
...went on for nearly four hours, a continuous stream. Knots of arrested protesters at just inside the fence, singing or chanting anti-nuke slogans, or chatting amiably with police while waiting to be taken to precinct headquarters in Yaphank for booking. "If any of you people would like a piece of gum I have some in my back pocket," offered one teen-ager, her bands bound behind her back. "I can't get it, of course...