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...Department of Transportation--the two federal agencies charged with hazardous waste disposal--are responsible for the current problems. In one spot check, state officials discovered that one-third of the trucks carrying the wastes into Washington were violating safety procedures. Ray told federal officials that until she is satisfied that safety measures will be enforced, the site will remain closed. The two agencies concerned must tighten their enforcement of the law regulating transport of radioactive wastes...
...continues." So the company began looking for a way to get into western coal land, talking to the United Power Association and the Cooperative Power Association, two small utilities based in Minnesota. An agreement was made--the North American Coal Company would produce the coal and the utilities would transport and distribute the electricity...
...cart off the tritium to the Navajo Army depot, a federal munitions dump near Flagstaff, Ariz. There it could be processed for sale, fed at a safe rate into the atmosphere or dumped at a nuclear waste site. But when a Flagstaff judge issued a restraining order against the transport, its destination became dubious...
...crucial assumption of nuclear proponents is that we will be able to isolate radiation from the population. The industry customarily excludes its own employees from the "population by a deft act of definition. Undoubtedly injury will be concentrated among the workers handling radioactive materials--in the mines, in transport, and in the plants. But unless the workers are themselves isolated from members of the opposite sex, they will soon pass on their damaged genes to the general population--not a trivial factor, since the industry uses large numbers of people, sometimes called sponges, who are not regular employees, to absorb...
...water daily construction. Seabrook in recent years has had a chronic water shortage, and the town and neighboring Hampton Falls have voted not to sell water to the plant. The company continues to use all the water it wants to. All the surrounding towns have voted against allowing transport of radioactive wastes through their communities, but the project goes on. New Hampshire residents voted out their knee-jerk rightwing governor, Meldrim Thompson, almost solely on the issue of CWIP (Construction Work in Progress) charges for the Seabrook nuke, a system that allows the utility to charge higher rates to electricity...