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Eighteen anti-nuclear protesters, including two Sisters of Mercy and one demonstrator in a wheel chair, were arrested yesterday at the Seabrook nuclear power construction site...
...WCAS interview was one of the few chances Tsongas had during the day to discuss issues. Fielding a question on his stand on nuclear energy, Tsongas replied that he favors using light water reactors, the type being built at Seabrook, N.H., because he believes the energy alternative--coal-- is worse. Even though the problem of how to dispose of the radioactive waste from such reactors has not been solved, Tsongas said using coal to replace the 30 per cent of total energy now supplied by nuclear power would be disastrous, raising the chance that it could bring about harmful climactic...
...five years this controversy has swirled around the coastal community of Seabrook (pop. 5,300), with the fortunes of battle favoring first one side, then the other. At issue is a $2.3 billion nuclear power plant that New England power companies, led by Public Service Co. of New Hampshire, insist must be built to satisfy the region's growing electricity needs. The federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission has now ordered that plant construction be suspended by July 21, thus awarding a temporary victory to the anti-nuclear forces, particularly their noisiest wing, the Clamshell Alliance. The alliance has mustered...
...stop-and-go course of construction at the site. Surprisingly, both sides agree on the villains' identity: bungling federal bureaucracies whose errors and capriciousness have kept key issues from being resolved. Says Carl Goldstein, a spokesman for the pro-plant Atomic Industrial Forum: "It is horrendous what Seabrook shows about the regulatory process." Agrees Tony Roisman, an opposing lawyer: "You can't regulate this...
...first difficulty arose in 1975 when the EPA decided to make Seabrook an exception to the rule. NRC, which holds final licensing power, issued a preliminary permit in 1976. This was done even though Government scientists had not fully studied the likely consequences of seawater cooling, which environmentalists claim is harmful to sea life. The utilities rushed to begin construction; the companies have now spent $400 million on the project, on the theory that the more they build, the harder the plant will be to stop. Meanwhile, company lawyers sought a permanent exemption from the cooling-tower requirement. This involved...