Word: plante
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...addition to the danger of catastrophic accident, no safe method of storing nuclear wastes has been found, nor have questions about the effects of low-level radiation on the human body been satisfactorily answered. And, in the case of the Seabrook plant, located on the coast, there are questions of how the billion gallons of water Seabrook sucks in and spews out at hotter temperatures will affect marine life...
...legal means of stopping construction have now been exhausted. We support the peaceful occupation of Seabrook as the only recourse left. The plant is unnecessary, uneconomic and, when completed, it will be unsafe. As with nuclear power plants all over the country, the price tag for Seabrook has more than doubled from $973 million to more than $2 billion since its conception. If we continue pouring money down the nuclear drain, we will not have the resources or the will to invest in other energy sources. The final cost of Seabrook alone is more than twice the federal government...
...greater awareness of nuclear power's potential hazards. The danger of a nuclear accident or core meltdown is one which takes on an ominous importance in light of Seabrook's proximity to Boston. The near-disaster at Three Mile Island has exploded the myth of a fail-safe nuclear plant...
...should now know that we cannot entrust our safety to a private industry that neglects safety measures in pursuit of its own profit. The House Interior Committee has uncovered unconscionable negligence on the part of both the plant owner, Babcock & Wilcox, and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission in the Three Mile Island incident. Both ignored the detailed warning of the Tennessee Valley Authority's chief nuclear safety expert. He told them in 1977--two years before the accident--that the plant's method of measuring cooling water levels was faulty, yet nothing was done...
...Harvard Business School Energy Project estimates that another 20 per cent of our energy could come from the sun by the year 2000 if the government gives it the high priority it deserves. Both conservation and solar power can be more speedily implemented than a nuclear power plant, which takes at least a decade to plan and build...