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BOSTON--Critics of the Seabrook nuclear power plant lashed out yesterday at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's preliminary decision to limit the role of governors in emergency planning for nuclear power plants...
...decision, if ratified after a 60 day period for public comment, would clear the way for licensing the Seabrook plant in New Hampshire, near the Massachusetts border, and the Shoreham plant on Long Island, 55 miles east of New York City...
...Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), a chief critic of Seabrook and the nuclear power industry, said the NRC "is sending a message to the American people that the economic wellbeing of the nuclear industry is more important than the health and safety of the public...
...They are more concerned with getting Seabrook licensed than they are with legitimate concerns raised by our state. It this rule is promulgated, we'll see them in court," Shannon said...
Dukakis said the Seabrook plant was "a white elephant" and that the NRC's action was the equivalent of removing lifeboats on the Titanic...