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...rally, thousands of demonstrators trekked down an access road lined with hawkers trying to sell "No Nuke" t-shirts, and pamphleteers who would attempt to convince you that nuclear power was not only dangerous, it was racist, sexist, militaristic, anti-gay and a tool of imperialist capitalistic corporate exploitation as well. Then past tables filled with anti-nuke and alternative energy literature and finally down a dirt path to the beach, were old reliables like Dave Dellinger, former anti-war activist, and George Wald, Emeritus Professor of Biology, would speak and Pete Seeger and others entertain. Just before noon...
Dairy Farmer Clair Hoover, whose pastures are barely five miles from the nuke, has reported 19 dead cows in the past six weeks. Although a simple infection may be responsible, as it often is during calving season, Hoover admits: "I can't help but have my thoughts." William Peffer of nearby Newberrytown, who had evacuated his family to Poughkeepsie, N.Y., says that his wife still wakes in a cold sweat at night...
...movement takes its case to Washington D.C. A huge demonstration and a public trial of nuclear power is planned for the afternoon, and organizers hope (and half-expect) it to be the largest U.S. anti-nuclear demonstration ever. No longer content to protest individual nuclear facilities with individual anti-nuke groups, the movement has progressed to a stage of unified action to put pressure where it counts--on the government...
During routine maintenance or refueling of a nuke, lowering a reactor's normal operating temperatures of about 315° C (600° F) is as simple as the binary code of the computer that does most of the work. Control rods are automatically dropped into the fuel core, which in effect douses its nuclear fires by stopping the fissioning of uranium atoms. Within several hours the temperature drops to 140° C (280° F). Then fresh coolant water is pumped through the reactor's heat exchanger (or steam generator) until the reactor's temperature dwindles to a still warm 65° C (150?...
Soon there were reports of "uncontrolled new radiation" from the plant. Screamed a headline in the New York Post: NUKE LEAK GOES OUT OF CONTROL. Company officials insisted again that an emergency back-up system had worked as planned and nothing was out of control. Once more there was confusion as spokesmen for the various parties involved in coping with the crisis argued about whether or not the release had been unexpected or intentional...