Word: plante
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Here in Seabrook, telephone polls are adorned not only with political posters but with radiation detectors. Both Kennedy and Dukakis, fueled by public rage about locating a nuclear plant in such a populated area and near rich fishing waters, won overwhelming majorities here, according to town clerk Virginia Fowler...
While the politicians who opposed the plant have slowly died on the political vine, the facility survived. The plant went on line less than two years ago after withstanding 20 years of worth of legal challenges by the Clamshell Alliance, a coalition of citizens groups united against the station's installation...
...seemed as if Seabrook might be about to pass from political attention. But if this weekend is any indication, the plant can still produce an occassional political meltdown...
Silent on the issue of Seabrook and nuclear power, Democratic Candidate Tom Harkin used the plant as a backdrop for a Friday speech in which he denounced front runner and former Massachusetts Sen. Paul E. Tsongas as a "Seabrook cheerleader...
Tsongas, who has opposed Seabrook but, unlike the other four major Democratic candidates, favors the limited use of nuclear power, attacked Harkin for negative campaigning. Former California Gov. Edmund G. Brown brought Seabrook up during a televised debate Sunday night, and by morning the plant was a conversation piece again...