Word: shutdowns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...recent shutdown of Harvard's--and the nation's--only low-level waste dumping site has spotlighted the situation...
Spokesmen for Interex Corporation which hauled 100,000 gallons of Harvard-generated low-level waste in 1978, said yesterday they hear the shutdown will only be temporary...
Parker L. Coddington, director of government relations, said last night the Hanford shutdown will "prove to be a very temporary closing...
...tremendous backlog of nuclear wastes and the irreperable health damage already caused by the exposure of plant workers and the general public to increasing radiation levels, we can no longer afford to leave our lives in the hands of the politicians and giant corporations. When we call for shutdowns, we get slowdowns; when we demand a phaseout they will give us some kind of moratorium. The government is trying to make nukes safe so they can continue to operate--but nukes are inherently dangerous, and we will be satisfied with nothing less than an immediate shutdown of all existing nuclear...
...call for immediate shutdown of all nukes is not a naive fantasy. It is entirely feasible. Earlier this summer, fully one-third of all the nation's nuclear plants were shut down due to minor accidents, regulatory procedures and routine maintenance and refueling. There were no electricity shortages, no brown-outs. With nukes providing less than four percent of U.S. electricity (itself only a fraction of total energy needs), with 30 to 50 per cent of our energy being wasted, with a huge excess electrical generating capacity on the part of the utilities, even a modest program of energy efficiency...