Word: safe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...barrel, hauled up by fishermen trawling off the New Jersey coast, came from an area where radioactive waste material had been dumped for safe disposal...
...packing necessary for safe sea disposal makes it expensive: to dispose of radioactive waste at sea costs $10 to $20 per cu. ft. In comparison, disposal firms can bury low-level waste on land for 70? a cu. ft. in atomic graveyards maintained by AEC at Oak Ridge, Tenn., and Idaho Falls. Here drums are deposited in 15-ft. holes and covered with concrete and earth. The disposal fields cost the U.S. $6,000,000 a year to maintain, and AEC expects to establish from five to ten more...
...handling by the disposal company, which lost its AEC license. In Antioch. Calif., two years ago, another low-level barrel leaked slightly into the San Joaquin River, from which Antioch draws its drinking water; after much testing and explaining by AEC, townspeople were persuaded that the water was still safe...
...field and was battered by Communist mortar and rifle fire, killing two Vietnamese soldiers and injuring three Americans, who set the helicopter afire to keep it out of Viet Cong hands. Said one hard-worked U.S. pilot: "It sounded like World War II out there." Even Saigon was not safe: on Christmas Day, a 26-year-old U.S. Army specialist went bicycling and has not been seen since. He was presumably kidnaped by the Viet Cong...
...public relations world, and that a great many Americans are pro-Katanga without any help from political pressagents.) Chief culprits in the whole mess, said Rowan, were the big Belgian-run mining complex, Union Minière du Haut-Katanga, and "financial interests" bent on maintaining Katanga as their "safe little kingdom...