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More than 600 people attended that demonstration Wednesday to protest the lack of safety for children in Boston's public schools and to urge Mayor Kevin H. White to form a special safety task force...
...candidates will speak in the K-School Forum either on the role of the presidency or on their perceptions of the three most critical public policy issues. They will also have a private session with Faculty members on any subject they choose and participate in a round-table discussion on their qualifications for president with local dignitaries and journalists...
Frank Ingram, public information officer for the NRC, last night declined comment on the situation, saying that NRC officials had contacted Washington officials today...
Gofman and his colleague Dr. Tamplin estimated in 1969 that 32,000 additional cancer deaths' would occur each year if the public were exposed to the legal radiation limit, with an additional 100,000 to one million deaths per year resulting several generations later from genetic damage. The National Academy of Sciences objected that their figures were possibly four to ten times too high. This caveat, however, leaves intact still-imposing fatal statistics and Gofman's theory that the number of deaths is directly proportional to the number of persons exposed and the size of the dose each receives. Utility...
...Irrevy" exposes how the pro-nuclear forces shape the debate about atomic energy. Gofman's chief strength is his ability to penetrate to the core of an issue through barriers of scientific and judicial jargon. He points out that concentration on the dilemma of waste disposal distracts the public's attention from the equally insoluble and more immediate problem of radiation leakage throughout the nuclear fuel cycle, from mine to mill to reactor. He assails an emphasis on energy conservation through onerous consumer restraint. He says far larger gains are possible from introduction of energy-efficient design to construction...