Word: vernon
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...most vigorous grassroots political movements in recent Vermont history is now forming. The issue is a mammoth nuclear power station just built in the Connecticut River Valley at Vernon, Vermont. This reactor, designed by General Electric to generate 513,900 kilowatts of electricity, has not yet begun production pending final approval by its mother, the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), and its host, the state of Vermont...
...Vernon plant is one of the first of between 50 and 100 atomic reactors with which the AEC plans to blanket the-Northeast before the year 2000, and it raises some important questions about the Nuclear Nirvana envisioned for America by utilities, the AEC and electricity fiends in general...
...facility at Vernon will be operated by the Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corporation, but suffers from limitations inherent in its fission, boiling water reactor (BWR) design and its peculiar location in the Connecticut River Valley near the Vermont Massachusetts border...
...means over 80 per cent of the heat generated is wasted and must be released to the environment. This is less than half as efficient as a fossil fuel (coal) plant, so the average nuclear plant requires 50 per cent more cooling water. This becomes an acute problem at Vernon where the Connecticut River provides a minimum of water...
...Garfield Park Hospital, whose white patients had moved to more affluent areas. Garfield's board sought a merger with Bethany, which agreed on condition that the hospital open its doors to blacks from the neighborhood. The directors then merged the two institutions and appointed a white administrator, Vernon Showalter, 42, who had run Bethany since 1952. He firmly told Garfield's medical staff: "Black patients are the ones living in this community, and it's black patients who are going to end up in this hospital." Many doctors found the union unacceptable and, over the next...