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...facility, built in 1958 and used for materials testing and experiments in nuclear medicine, is the second most powerful research reactor in the country. Its fuel, a highly-enriched form of uranium, could potentially be stolen by terrorists who want to build nuclear bombs, said David C. O'Connor, director of the Cambridge Department of Emergency Management...
...well; it was not the time to be upbeat. But why wasn't it? People die every day in this country--at work, at home, in the streets. Reagan didn't go on TV to mourn the loss of a worker killed last month at a plant that processes uranium for nuclear weapons. He died for his country, unexpectedly, without media fanfare, with no final streak into the heavens. Or what about the street people who are dying in the cold snap that is sweeping the nation...
...available internship, with the RossingFoundation of Namibia, was cited by SASC asparticularly abhorent since it is connected withthe Rossing Corporation, a multinational miningconcern which the report states endangers thelives of workers in its open-pit uranium mine...
...goes. Many of the commonsensical scientific facts that were learned in school a generation ago had to be subsequently unlearned. The most healthy diet was once considered to be red meat every day and lots of eggs and milk too. The auto would run for a year on a uranium pill. Babies (the more the better) must be fed on a strict schedule every three hours; no, babies must be fed whenever they cry; no, on a schedule . . . And the sun never sets on the British empire...
That much of the damage already done to the earth can not be undone is obvious in Berger's accounts of surface mine reclamation--especially in his description of the radioactive gases and dust and groundwater spreading from thousands of abandoned uranium mines in the Southwest. He finds more hope for real rejuvenation where people reclaim land from overuse and physical abuse rather than industrial devastation...