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...went off to a party in Brooklyn. Next day Nelson's first wife, Mary Clark Rockefeller, demonstrated the helplessness of the very rich. "AnneMarie, what happened to you last night? I had to take my husband to Hamburg Heaven." That was only the beginning, as Anne-Marie Rasmussen reveals in her autobiography There Was Once a Time. Contrary to the American Dream, Second Son Steven had no sooner married her in 1959 than they lived unhappily ever after. It was psychoanalysts for both and not a laugh in between. "The Rockefellers are not funloving," recalls Anne-Marie, who divorced...
...safety study, financed by the AEC and conducted by a group of independent researchers led by MIT professor of nuclear engineering Norman C. Rasmussen, concluded that nuclear power plant accidents present a negligible risk to public health and safety...
...their report, the Union Scientists and the Sierra Club also charged that the AEC is "misusing" the results of the Rasmussen report...
...another way, of the 15 million people residing in the vicinity of the 109 nuclear plants that are operating or are under construction in the U.S., one of them might die and two might be injured in a radioactive accident over the next 25 years. Concludes Norman C. Rasmussen, the professor of nuclear engineering at M.I.T. who headed the research team: "The study says to me that these plants do not present a significant risk to the public...
...Rasmussen concedes that the report is bound to be controversial. For example, it does not even consider sabotage as a cause of nuclear accidents, a possibility that especially troubles Ralph Nader. Nor does it investigate the additional risk of accident involved in the new generation of gas-cooled reactors or the next generation of fast-breeder reactors. In addition, anti-nuclear critics like the Union of Concerned Scientists in Cambridge, Mass., vow to scrutinize WASH-1400 for any oversimplification, any error in calculation or method that might discredit the work...