Word: plante
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...radiation released from the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant during the recent crisis is slowly dispersing into the atmosphere, but the scary accident is having fallout of another sort--anti-nuclear protests exploded in the Boston area and around the country this week...
Scholars lined up on both sides of the nuclear debate. George Wald, Higgins Professor of Biology Emeritus, told crowds at Sunday's rally that the Harrisburg plant had released harmful radiation. "There is no threshold; any radiation is dangerous," Wald said...
...unfortunate that the men, women, and children who plant and harvest the greatest quantity of food ever in this country don't have enough for themselves," Chavez said...
...safety systems of the Three Mile Island nuclear generating plant malfunctioned resulting in the country's worst civilian nuclear accident. Radiation leaked into the surrounding area and for several days a core meltdown seemed imminent. Besides being a confirmation of the worst fears of nuclear power's foes, Three Mile Island may also mark the end of nuclear power as The Alternative to coal and oil. Though it seems unlikely that a federal ban on nuclear power plants will come out of any subsequent investigations, local governments and citizens' groups will have a lot of ammunition to use against power...
...appreciably. Any decline in social services for education is also a decrease in investment in human capital. The further deterioration of the established cities of the northeast will bring economic costs in policing, replacing, or repairing them, to say nothing of the potential waste in people or physical plant. Cities are the focal points of economic development; they are efficient and necessary. Any balanced budget will hit them hardest. The mayors of American cities know this and oppose the notion...