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...Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) ordered on July 1 that construction of the $2.5 billion nuclear plant at Seabrook, N.H., be suspended on July 21 until a study of the effects of the cooling system on the marine life in the area is completed...
...spokesman for the Clamshell Alliance said yesterday that the NRC ruling was a "limited victory." In many cases, construction on plants delayed by the NRC has indeed resumed at a later date, the spokesman said, adding that the Alliance will continue to fight against Seabrook and other nuclear plants...
...Clamshell Alliance, a New England anti-nuclear group, has made Seabrook a nation-wide issue by sending speakers to civic and church groups, disseminating literature and by staging two large demonstrations at the construction site. The most recent demonstrations on June 24 and 25 attracted 18,000 protesters. The Alliance advocates alternatives to nuclear energy such as existing fossil fuels, solar and wind energies...
...Hampshire, the mass arrests came close to bankrupting the state, costing it $50,000 a day, while the local community turned strongly against the Public Service Company of New Hampshire (PSC) and reactionary state government. So much so, in fact, that the residents of Seabrook recently voted this time in a binding referendum, to cut off the Public Service Company's water supply. PSC responded by getting a court injunction against the town's action, and has since been hounded by threats of violence from Seabrook housewives, who are already being forced to ration water...
...Seabrook is a matter of life. If completed, the plant will be only 40 miles north of Harvard Square. But a report done for the Atomic Energy Commission concluded that a major accident in a plant half the size of Seabrook could contaminate an area of land equal in size to the state of Pennsylvania...