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...extended shutdown could cause real trouble. If tritium production at Savannah River is not resumed within a year or so, says Assistant to the Secretary of Defense Robert Barker, "we will begin to disarm unilaterally." Even as such alarms are being sounded, however, there is little sense of urgency at the White House about either the danger to national security or the threat to people living in potentially irradiated environments near the DOE facilities. "The Energy Department is managing the situation very well," says B. Jay Cooper, a White House spokesman. Intent on keeping the issue from being politicized...
...gloom at Rocky Flats began on Oct. 8 when the Energy Department ordered work stopped in Building 771, where operations vital to the functioning of the entire facility were conducted, severely curtailing activity for the foreseeable future. The shutdown came after three people walked into a room that contained contaminated equipment. The warning sign that should have alerted them was covered by an electrical panel. Although the workers were not seriously exposed, the sloppy attitude toward safety has a long history at the plant. In its early days of operation, it was prone to fires, culminating in a blaze...
Peter Agnes, assistant Massachusetts public safety commissioner, stood up while NRC officials were telling commissioners that the Pilgrim plant in Plymouth, Mass., was ready to open after a two-and-one-half-year shutdown even though it did not have an approved emergency evacuation plan...
...officials, in their briefing to the commissioners, said the original management and equipment problems that triggered the shutdown on April 12, 1986, have been resolved. They added that evacuation planning, while not completed, is greatly improved and should not halt the reopening of the plant...
...some ways, the strike scene was sadly familiar. Only four months ago, during a round of nationwide walkouts by 20,000 workers, Walesa led a shutdown at the Lenin shipyard. After a nine-day sit-in, the workers accepted a demoralizing surrender. This time, though, the core of worker protest lay with the nation's 450,000 coal miners in Silesia. They are the prime motor of Poland's tottering economy, firing its aging industrial plant and providing $1 billion in precious hard-currency exports...