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...former AEC chairman believes the atom is the answer. Ray argues that strict safety standards are being incorporated into the state's six nuclear reactors now planned or under construction ?including two at Hanford, site of the nation's first center to produce plutonium. Says she: "We are going to have atomic power as fossil fuels dwindle, so we may as well get used...
...unexplained attempt was made on Silkwood's life through the contamination of her house with plutonium after she brought charges against the Kerr-McGee plant to the Atomic Energy Commission...
Karen Silkwood, a worker at the Kerr-McGee plutonium plant in Crescent, Oklahoma, collected documented evidence of her company's violations of health, safety, and quality standard rules...
Daniel P. Sheehan, chief counsel for the Silkwood case, said last night that the Silkwood family is suing Kerr-McGee officials for failing to account for all of the company's stored plutonium, for violating health and standard rules, and for violating Silkwood's civil and union liberties...
...aspect of the plan that is certain to draw the fire of antinuclear groups is the President's offer to have the U.S. store the atomic waste of foreign reactors that use American fuel. Spent uranium rods used in reactors can be reprocessed to yield plutonium, which could be used for military purposes. By holding the spent foreign fuel in the U.S., Washington hopes to curb the global proliferation of nuclear weapons...