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AMESBURY,--Congressmen opposed to the opening of the Seabrook, N.H., nuclear power plant yesterday warned Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) officials they would face fierce resistance if they favored a plan to ease emergency evacuation safeguards...
Incumbent Republicans captured both statewide races. Senator Warren Rudman won earily over former Massachusetts Governor Endicott Peabody. Governor John Sununu, a defender of the Seabrook nuclear power plant, eked out a victory over Democrat Paul McEachern...
...Lancaster and Dauphin counties vowed to increase efforts to prevent the reopening of the reactor at Three Mile Island that was not involved in the 1979 accident there. In New Hampshire and on New York's Long Island, antinuclear forces stepped up their campaigns against licensing of the Seabrook and Shoreham plants, arguing that what happened north of Kiev could just as easily happen there. "The accident at Chernobyl makes it clear," said Ellyn Weiss, general counsel of the Cambridge, Mass.-based Union of Concerned Schentists. "Nuclear power is inherently dangerous." Maurice Barbash is a builder who heads a Long...
Bankruptcy or no, bills to users are probably going up. Public Service of New Hampshire, drained by its Seabrook nuclear complex, is hanging on with money from Merrill Lynch's sale to investors of $90 million in short-term notes. The real rescue money, though, will come from users, who face rate hikes of 60% during the next five or six years. Seabrook defenders point out that the project will sharply lessen the state's dependence on foreign oil, whose price rises drove up bills by as much...
...utility executives and many other energy planners appear blind to the clear indications that the scale and cost of electricity sources tends to be inversely related to their cost-effectiveness and, because future electricity demand may vary, flexibility. And still the costly lessons continue. One unit of the Seabrook nuclear power plant now seems headed for completion, but New England utility customers will be paying the bill for many years to come...