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...more frequent is the sight of school buses stopping at creaking wooden bridges to let children walk across, then following behind to pick them up on the other side. In many cases, even this is risky for the driver of an empty bus. "We have a lot of ten-ton buses going across a three-ton bridge," says Clovis Fraser, a Georgia transportation official...
Specifically, the bill authorizes the design and construction of two repositories, 2,000 to 4,000 feet underground in rock formations stable enough to keep the deadly waste safe and dry for at least 10,000 years. The first site will be limited to a 77,000-ton capacity. The new law requires a procedure for site selection that is deliberately arduous, involving numerous reviews, full-scale tests, public hearings, environmental assessments and consultation with state and local officials. Then the President must recommend his final site choices to Congress-the first by 1987, the second...
...acre) manmade caverns, then completely covered over. Aboveground, a typical waste burial site is expected to look something like a mining operation. The method of waste transport is also an issue unaddressed by the bill. The preferred mode is by train; the Energy Department claims success testing a 150-ton railcar cask able to withstand crashes and fires. In the lengthy saga of nuclear-waste disposal, acknowledged a spokesman for the Atomic Industrial Forum, a trade group for the nuclear industry, "transportation could be the next big issue." Said David Berick of the Environmental Policy Center: "One of the reasons...
...Chugach Mountains and into Anchorage to forage for food. Normally shy creatures, moose tend to get ornery when hungry and are not readily moved by either cold reason or warm talk. At the hospital, a herd of seven moose, ranging in size from 350-lb. calves to half-ton adults, adopted the parking lot as their winter home. There they munched contentedly on recently planted shrubs; occasionally they charged at cars and employees. Hunting laws prevent forceful dealing with the problem...
...margin of 69 votes, the House refused to give Ronald Reagan something the President had insisted, with all the persuasive flourishes of his best prime-time TV oratory, that America urgently needs to counter the Soviet Union's threatening nuclear arsenal: money to begin production of the 96-ton MX missile with its ten-warhead punch...