Word: plante
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...price tag is $2.2 billion and ground has yet to be broken in the Tennessee valley. What's more, the architectural firm given the contract for the project wrote in a 1973 report that Clinch River was "one of the worst sites ever selected for a nuclear power plant based on its topography and rock conditions." And with the increased amounts of uranium now available, the advantages of the breeder--namely its need for less uranium than conventional reactors--are irrelevant. It's all pretty cut and dried. The project is clearly premature; the wrong idea in the wrong place...
...when Carter attempted to kill Clinch River in April of last year, the reasoning downplayed the economic and geological arguments against this particular plant. Instead, he worked from the broader, far more compelling and important opinions he voiced in the previous fall's campaign. The risk of further nuclear proliferation, the President said in withdrawing administration support from Clinch River, "would be vastly increased by the further spread of sensitive technologies which entail direct access to plutonium or other weapons-useable material...
...report expresses concern over the quality of Loeb productions and says, "Courses for credit could also help lessen the present disparity between the quality of Loeb productions and its extraordinary physical plant, a disparity that questions its future...
Lawyers for Harvard's Medical Area power plant triumphed in three court actions this week, but construction of the plant is still blocked, and a coalition of 5000 Boston-area residents opposed to the project say they plan further protests and lawsuits to ensure that the $110-million plant is never built...
...Harvard Anti-Nuclear Alliance plans to send a group of students to the June 24 Clamshell Alliance occupation of the nuclear power plant site near Seabrook...