Word: siting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Near the fence, you can see clumps of police surrounding the site. The seven-foot fence, topped with three strands of barbed wire, will become a symbol--fence-cutting represents direct action against the plant; and among the happiest shouts of the weekend is the one that goes up Monday morning when one group returns from a nighttime foray with 30 feet of the tempered steel. But now, the fence is only in the way, and the goals--the rusting reactor vessel and the turbine building, each flying an American flag--stand outlined in the dawn...
...nuclear plant in five hours, Seabrook looks pretty dull--very dull, in fact. A steady drizzle replaces the afternoon's thick mist falling on Seabrook police car number 23. Through the treetops, red airplane warning lights shine on the cranes that just into the eastern sky from the construction site. The cranes are still now, and the only visible activity is at Dunkin' Donuts across the street, where a scraggly crowd orders crullers and coffee...
...wait, not minding the cold, apprehensively euphoric at the prospect of impending, but undefined confrontation. The forest has a silver lining: a brilliant full moon illuminates the treetops and jagged piles of gravel from the construction site...
Jacob Shapiro, radiation safety officer in the office of environmental health and safety, said yesterday if the Hanford, Wash., dumping site is not open by Monday, his office will stop collecting liquid radioactive waste...
Washington Gov. Dixy Lee Ray closed the site last week after a spot investigation revealed that trucks hauling radioactive wastes into Washington were violating federal safety procedures...