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...every ton of uranium mined, only 2.24 ounces of processed ore results. Although the company is long gone, the 71 acres of uranium mill tailings remain, untreated and exposed in the city of Shiprock. The U.S. Department of Energy now estimates that those persons residing within a half-mile radius of uranium mill tailings piles have a 100 per cent greater risk of contracting cancer than the general population. The reason is fundamental to the nature of uranium. Uranium mill tailings retain 85 per cent of the original radioactivity of the uranium--"wastes" or not. Kerr McGee's abandoned uranium...
...warn people living near Three Mile Island to take prudent precautions. First, he asked all residents within ten miles to remain inside their homes with their windows closed (though in fact that provides scant protection from radiation). Then he urged pregnant women and young children within a five-mile radius to move out, and closed schools. He also took the broader step of advising the four counties in the area, where nearly 900,000 people live, to prepare for evacuation. The Harrisburg airport was closed for several hours because of the radiation hazard...
Despite the improvement of the situation at the plant, local civil defense officials yesterday continued to review plans for a precautionary evacuation of 25,000 residents within a five-mile radius of the reactor...
Schools within a ten-mile radius of the plant were closed yesterday and some state government offices reported that up to one-third of their employees stayed home...
George Wald, Higgins Professor of Biology Emeritus told the crowd that federal and state officials were "crazy" not to evacuate residents within a five mile radius of the Three Mile Island nuclear facility in Pennsylvania...