ML19330A182
| ML19330A182 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | Midland |
| Issue date: | 11/15/1971 |
| From: | Metzger H AFFILIATION NOT ASSIGNED |
| To: | Gadler S AFFILIATION NOT ASSIGNED |
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| NUDOCS 8007150953 | |
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e' H. PETER M ETZ.G E R 5 a a2 = ?A% e't"e b 5t November 15, 1971 Steve.J. Gadler, P.E.
2120 Carter Avenue POOR Q@
St. Paul, Minnesota 55108 I
Dear Mr. Gadler:
This is an answer to your letter of October 26, 1971, inviting me "to testify as a scientist for the Mapleton Intervenors in the matter of the USAEC Licensing Board Hearings on the Consumer Power. application to construct an atomic plant at Midland, Michigan".
Your letter goes on to say that although I would be "an important witness", you cannot guarantee that if I prepared my testimony, I "would be allowed to present it or be allowed to testify".
It is precisely for this reason and this reason alone, that I must refuse your invitation to testify.
I accepted such an invitation once before but I will never do so again.
Furthermore, I am surprised that any witness who must travel any distance, would accept such an invitation if he knew the facts:
Here they are:
According to AEC Rules, my testimony (on behalf of the Intervenors in the case of the proposed Shoreham station of the Long Island Lighting Company in New York) was prepared in writtep form and was in the AEC's hands months in advance of my scheduled appear-ance.
Furthermore I was informed that my testimony would be restricted to what I had written, and at my appearance I would not be allowed to add to it or elaborate upon it in any way, once it had been submitted to the AEC in written form months b e fo re.
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M NowtheAEChasablat%ntyself-servingrule.
It will not rule upon the a'dmissibility of testimony unless the witness is present
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V Steve J. Gadler, P.E.
Page 2 November 15, 1971 at the time of ruling.
This is true'despite the fact that during the months the AEC has any written testimony in hand, there can be (and was in my case) many opportunities (hearing days, when representatives of all sides are present) to rule upon the admissibility of such testimony.
Now'on the surface this seems to be a good idea: a safeguard so that the witness' testimony is not j udged in his absence, so that he may confront those who seek to disallow his testimony and rebut their argu-monts.
But this isn't so.
The witness must be present al1~
right, but during the deliberations on admissibility, he must stand nute and there fore cannot defend himself.
The re fo re,
no legitimate purpose is served by requiring the witness to be present at that time.
This is what occurred in my case.
But there is a non'-legitimate pu rpose in requiring the witness to be present, though mute.
It is to accomplish exactly what th'e AEC has accomplished in my case:
to discourage a witness from testifying who mus t travel across the country, for what witness would do so if he knows in advance that his testimony may be disallowed at the pleasure of the AEC ruling board.
If his testimony is favorable to the AEC, he can reasonably expect r.o worries at all; i f it is damaging to the AEC, he now knows that the chances of being heard are small since it is the AEC board itself which makes the ruling.
Technioues s_ucn as this.,not only violate due process (to which o
e AEC is not bound) but~ fair play, common sense and evea enlightened self interest as)well.
Remarkably, after freely in'duli-ndn this nefa rious s~ ham, the AEC still wonders why it is being "peribciited""by the public.
Sincerely yours,
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Pet e r.'fe t zge r HPM:1h Chairman Sc.hlesinger cc:
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- (copyright 1971 by The New York Times Company. Reprinted by permission)
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By H. PETER MI:TZGrJL (SUGGESTED LETTER TO OWERS Of* PROPERTIES WHERE PACIATION LEVELS had already died of et be'ans q
emmand twop=a m r.XCEED THE SURGEON GENERAL'S GUIDELINES) fore the A LC. began ks massate utensum procurement program l
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Dear Predactably thea,
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.dfend tu same fate. As An official report on our survey of your property for the D,';j"me*[j'[M.
tee en me subact u the No-pretence of uranium mill tailings is enclosed.
moeal Acad.emy of sewaces.
reeway eti erved: ne epi-s of hms caace aw a You will note that our study has confir ned the presence of d'ro*g'nss p
among Americas uraniula tallings on your property and that the radiation exposure Ea#
we ve pr.dicted on the bas.s of past 88
'he"w"orld'?"S'o far,sev'eral rate le higher than the level at which the U.S. Surgeon General t
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feels, corrective action is suggested
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We wish to point out to you, in all honesty, that there is Joha"o* Health. Educaricand sent f little preetse seier.tifie infermation about the lone.terai health
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gramum miners, se estima:ed effeet of low-level radiation, such as exists in your home, we soo to 1.100 will be dea 8 of lung cancer w. thia ** aest uposure en the job.;****
20 ye3n tecause d strorcriv reco99end. however, that you faake every effort to lever treeted" from' "its ore, a'd' 'he' Wh*
'h the rediation exposure level in your home by removirm the uranium t
radiual remams behmd m the tad.n,a,s. so =iih regtre te th.
tellines from your property, aa rad daustus. a aa-W ge ga'v ;,'e,e".s f n oe oe ta,ogs a,e m o-m -c= ca (E letter above is a draft of a ender roads and airport run-ways. whools are m the open warams that the Colorade
~ Junction would be eery higlL The eraphse for use. after enrichment. la and have plenty of *efititatson, State Dreartment of Heafsk A.EC. deteramed in ce case of one' nuclear. power reactors. This means but to budd a home for any wGI sand sometame withm the neza few weeks to S.000 homeowners an home valued at 832.G00 that more that the pues of tadings are stdt er enclosure) over the the city of Grand Junction. The dan-than $1S.000 worm of worn would growing. a6thatqh much less uramum redroactive snaterial as an.
get comes froni e gray, ssad hke ma-be rewsred And the 5.0G3 homes he is currentfy bemg produced cas other story: it is almost to serial, a waste product from a down-Grand Junction are not the anone of durma the niining boots et tw nee
- duptmate me situaten down town granium mitt that sa no longer the affair. &lany bomen la Durango, teen. fifties.
In a uransum mme. The rade-operates, whech ens t.arted assy se another usamum-nadt town in Codea Re mounds of radioactive sand um m the Idi predaces radon large gaantstics as a constructice (de rede, have strendy beest simwn to more than 90 sodhon tons of it la gas whun seeps op crougft for foundateos L Only recency have have been built on Ladmas. Pretsmi" all-ere faims at some 30 mdes scat-tne cesiar cesnent sists and col.
the people hymg over those fossada-nary measurements inGKate that 14 tered over tsne Western statek Ne*
lects ensede the house. The teens be;ua to irara de a:
score towns en the state could have bremce., Wyommg, Colorado. Utah.
reden es contsnuously chang-af the threat that rises from the the same pec6dem and estimates for Arizona. Oregon, Washmstoa. South hst mie radon 4aug' iter parts-cles, which a Ge raarn re.
earth beneath their feet repairms all of the affected homes Datters and lesas.
man suspended in me at to Colonde run as bgt as SW Pdea outsade the udts, the ladings st at m In order to masa comprehensible were frufy avadable for years sed g,
the doses of radiation tPat are en.
Like Grand Junctson and Duraege.
the Atomac Energy Commimon de-h,,ees Whe, rMn,daug't-volved, the health deparment has calcu!sted that me lungs of the oeces.
Salt Lake Caty. Utali. also has a large chned to preteat people from cart-gg,,,g,gg 4 pants in 10 per cent of those 5.000 eng them seay. Even today there are greetty meressms the sus of Margs P*le inside its boundart'f'e*
metfective controls Or.ly Colorado kms cancer.
houses are known to have been es.
Despite assurances from state ef 11 enses taalmgs piles and restruts But this is not the only posed to ghe agavaieng of Store maa
'a there t!'at no tsumes were public access to them. althougn New hasard.
Rados daug%ters 833 chest Xvare per year.
Yort Times correspondent Anthony fadmg to get througn tae w NMm pu@su enp IA &!sy. Steale Departnient letters
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went out to the Grand Juncten city De** man found sa rays.which elso cam pe tetrate eteneger and me Chamber of Conn.
tace * ' anym me a truck strong M the M"s. WW Bierce recommendmg that real estate thG hames in the West may be samalarly keepgnat stga on the road to the City young childrea spend et;Jch of GBlet be reserKled t's at be gg gags,.g thatered. Wherever there 33 a bag seitage (Matinent plant aftd drive their tame. As wtsit the meters.
gg g est are free for the" takes". it seem"s.
" des to sho'w d3cif in adults.
g Coimty Cosnmewoners decreed that co
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8"s sf people will fand it and ese at before I
susceptible ve atsemc rads-to;ng out to buy o,rdinary sand But d*iv"en8"n'ce U"n" ion'N' rbade s -
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o Ca atson. are already ecstanmit to taalma are present, they be re.
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enhibit disturbeg symptamt moved pner to erectionof huddasigh bamaned for'.
T T7'e Umversity of CWorMo Another part of the stare's letter
& N the first years of uransurn Ce m h nus to the horneowners says. Ne pubiac 3"
Product'*la, nely the daneers N h p W k RM funda are preten:ty sea 6Lle to pay HE taniings are one of.several fran W om un me nunes p,,lto,ss,J,r,,a,, ped,,<atric,ian M,
Me ce t cf %#tt r*enova' [Imm k nda uf radioacthe waste left ever were mmsed The oM
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existeg bddangS] We see escetmg from our coumry s quest for nonce
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l funds sd stade por this purpose gray sand as maa4 remaans after the to tw mag a
le rellche the burden th s ue. forte-rott-hke C/ is crushed at the mal atic r h4 self rapidfy chacges ento a enmn2 h'E wag Patows se mate situasion has piaced on Grarid as*d the eramure removed. Since Junttoon vessants? Aa cacewermg peutomum, a n an-stade e#ement rre-series of hgtdy radenactive N'*I I" 7#*
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study. g ecpared for the Atomc Est-deced m a macle'r rector, se now solid ptatirits that rema*n A
- f nds to study chwamal ergy Cremissaan (Ag;C ). wachuted the Pr*ferred fuet for nucient meaf'"
suspemled m the air called ens. ee Goverement as no lon=ef "redan daunoters
- When in-bMaW. an ea@ barume that Or cow of res e mg the tasanga Jress b muth the homes se Grand purchaung ersenusa Ircen the malt hated. the gwatries edhere to In fact, the A E.C. has sust annoisemed ee ess.e r=f ne lewiss med
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urnmune froen its wakades fur w Gov. W Love aml et uw e-eee a b e emie=e.. em,4.
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shssinal purposes. that rnute com-called N duaw a hundred n
Wbrdecal a#d healt h peotue, fatyede (eee.iieg de te e,espennel tg 4
s hs I*We it t as t=8mW N e ea-eews a been gecogg, red as h,ng cancer. A se me et 8#e9ee8er brecepety.
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A E C. deelded that when a m tadants benem a himw had identifiest the indoor efda. ancludaeg the sonarce of meti ewner's licenas IN
'88 dWPhCa'e Londit!*'IS m a At the eved of 1969. the rh p@% R WM W the fust (uranense er thatsteml.
nated. fearther entittel Of ta.3 erarlaufe misne. tsut that the Colder.co Heaith Department d,df,icu,lt, 9
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to ge the most miense byprudurts ings was not required. Josepit Fohlem could eWG be wW g
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Hennessey, ne A LC."S than M was for the men.
2e town ef Uravae dal wm fempted to prevent the suf>
seId "afstdal testacar aseler al" chseflegalCO sriset at the time.
8N more paieple would ject from Ipecomtag 8 publsC ameteen"-twences fladd lev.
(hhe plutoniumi. Under its ened a Senate subcesemattee:
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- eegulations, radium-sisch as "There is a hrn.tahon...
ela in seven of those homes is conteined te the fadenP Da the Atemer Energy Act) be esposed for toeger pe.
Sinre chddren are the most actually escoeded the imel al-rauds sad the sectsms would senadsve Lo rassuon. et was has never been en the last of that taempts.. any guset>
,k,s*ed in br neum mines Rch.
tsdioactne w4stes that the tws of eramam... conaed.
be of all age Croups. mcjue 4mtsortant to mesnure rad a-t Cauin. en A LC repre-by the mg those most senmuve to actmty en the schools, most sentatsve sew to Colorado to agency controls. a:shough its cred ammerar.an,t, our pres, atomac ra&anannounsl cnol.
of wtuch had been budt in explain the endoor redon pecb.
broad legal manoate to pro-e dren and the unborn.
recent years. 5.ca and snell-tect the pibiie frone unsafe entpostiste is that theconcen-on om,i,eorwary.t,i,,,.,o.150. 1std tem in rs&atsen could be interpreted trauon of uranium m these Lookes ha k.
et seems neg. along with Dr. Cecit teet y, hard to understand how the Reinstcari, the county Imatth ime of mene tar..mp for cose.
as coverms enes material.
waste peles as [too low) to Moreover, tre small amounts imm any restrictene A E.C. could have oermatted oefwer. voet with LSc Supenn' struction purgeres... pre-
. of uramura and morium left (Emphases added 1 the whole ihmg to hanen en tendent of SMs m Gml dates the atomac enerry pro.
In the tastmts are bcnow the The effect of this action me fant place The uramum Junden m N to espam gram." While No suternent is the proMem and get perms-true, the emprenton et creates level that the A f C. dermes was te remove tre uranium mmers' tragady was unfold-as "tmportant* W Id per centi-evil taisents fenra any control seg and the das,ger of redsa.
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in the at fore there was are A LC can The tastivigs problem had at alt with one tupport of tion-enduced lung cancer was 5iek remembers that the hard!W be Compared wsth the two possible solutaens at the the U.S. Pu%c Ht44th Serv
- 4 much discussed subicct en supermtendent saed he wondd mane thousanos of hnmes start-A Eureau of Mmes ace. the State of Coserade tne mall towns of the West han to msuk tem his %
bt thWe on lahgs study showed that the redsum framanly protested. but et dad it was commort knowledge enufac adviser
- In such mat-fretty removed from A E.C..
consid be remeeved wsth ter.
ne good. Tl.a A.LC., without m (Ae mdi conimumties 388*8 *** who hemed mms - a tem L'as' a Riember of the"*chool seesta. en a common lesett.
outside consultaaon and witth*
that tadmes were ruotanely w
s whiCn by this time was kehows ing psecess But the leecheg east pubiaslung 8'ty supportsve used f ar fdi un&'r homes.and
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would have to be done at the data, cons.144rd that the local healt h off.csais were mall. durms the refmeng proc.
uraneum tathn;s pales " pre" concerned-board and also as assistant In a 1970 report entaled ess. le be econormcal At teus sent ne haaard to tne en-
.A.E.C ltesprms hdities pe.
late date at would be too cost.
vwonment, either short terit let 19C3. esght years before manager of ths A E C. 8 Grand ly to haul the peleg back to or tong tenn =
M was d scosered that hun.
Junctiove operatsons olhce.
gar $ng the Mem,ns and %)).
g the mill for processma The And 30. In 17#A. some 90 dreds of hoenes in Duranto, wesabrook and another ef.
- "rthure f*dt on the tadings. Dr.
facial arrived later and the same gaae foe the atternatsve mdlton tons of ra&oactave gg A
Warace. the county hea$th officers sereaMe ther of transportm3 the tan.ngs rand were s sddenly no longer gg g
back to the hranusra nunes the resconutehty of the
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rat.est to set oest monnormg partments about the prom m The method movid be econom-A'E.C Witis ste exception of IMaasd 8. Weister, these the e%, ment: et was turned g, time. The c,om.I,d W en mission a ed leatly fees.ble only durms the Colorado, wtste state con.
A! C?s reso al diractor of o*n.
L.ne nveston ct oenph trice. Dr Westbrook says now that eidhng el the ore. whca trischs trol toolt over seme&ately.
e takmg sta ore to ne mdts the pdes wouls tust base ao W arner reported that the he felt the techmque pre
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Could betng bacit the taalmgs wait untst they caused some Yanadsurn Corporauon af posed for measunng the ra.
to the mia e on the return tr p.
res? troiable before anyone Amerca's ladsegs pde, towf.
d6r*8Etivity in the schooes was authonty over uramum md!s WW h W Wy e What the mdis did a the etse wou6d stee ne wah con.
ang 200 feet over the center inadcquate. But even so. a first 40 years of the atormt trol steasuret And by that of town, caused 'sprious con.
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{e some idea of the entent sand tadsngt",3, copy of t,na, energy pro 2 rara, a was dia, tiene of course, et would be cern within this cornmumtya N MN My the A
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covered, w as to discharge toe laa k E se and W A K
.yggg g,gg,,4 hiesa Cobuy school leoard ladmps end ra$ car the waste The A E C?s sunsmary of fw enformatiott concernma g
g liguess into the nearest water.
what was espected to be its the use af the tad nps in ce news that 15 of sts schools W
hM m hase t=een budt on tad.ng wayt The A LC. taelatedly feel statement en the tail.
Constriact,on of smaJ build-and that in at least one c as,s
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asked the mel;s to keep the ings problem pid "we fmd ings. Today. Dr. Wafker ad.
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the aarborne racoacuv.
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amount of radioactive mate.
such as to, warrant com,,,rol by mecha ses but anstead maded to y excteds the Fcderal hmat etal dernped sto risers and, g
streams wit hen permissitH dooactass ntsteries shkh as Wartier a copy of an A.E C.
pefmitted m granaum mmet hamta, but, rather than having now so wadely &s)ersed.
Inter ce the subsett that was if the lettet f'ad in fact been to pay for the necessary safe.
could becom so contantrated aut@mdly mt m IMI to N as Wal M as well, mt.
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the A E C. henderrd efforts to some entent the A E.C/s com-ty measures, the commesstee as to eeceed cura pgl NS (whEh. as we shad MN 8 Mon-in W,
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&d nothms to enforce ets ble standaras for P'*
Cl agamst ra&4 tion." The" sam"**
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the Colorado State Depart.
it had created in sts guest for streggyrgg The mest year.
Page ment of Putdnc Heakh and ra w materials. But notnd e gp ment is remarkahle becam Edwards, manager of that the Southwestern Da&otog: cal could remeset er ne letter Mt AllE A E C. hoew w hat e at she scry momet hast such Durango neut. alao asaed the Heauh Laeoratones request.
one of the raJiapon hea.th buetien the tadhics piks were m'acesHrat ons CE were beseg A LC for adv:ce abaut the evt funds from the US Purhe effacers of ne 9we states has aud to hmm beause a bad one use of taahrgs for construe.
Health Serverer for sucpoet to a e xq,rd of thea correspond-of,qi As a htontxet:o.
Here" is how the proble.'m taan,ypurpnees,,,,The.7,E, C,?s ewn, en carry ou,et a,,d s,,s to de,hne, t survey
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,m, proprce, the stency flattened tentana: On a routme an.
... are not r.abat to the mdoor rados rroeless the T
the pile, covered it with top spection early en l56. Robert the A E C. Ikensing reqisere.
AEC officially t'ns ter-e.
sml and gemed at oser at a D. Seit of Ane C91er.tso De.
mensca managed to renew the t. rant
""*"'I sest ef evsre than poo.ung; parwent of n. 4th and Ro'>
By then there tud been request and. on ers t.xome wn.
eut esen the arnhet.ous pet.p ett N.
Sarffang of fhe U S-putdic &srusssons of "made, darum, the U.S. Pwbbc Heath
.i msasum m W Qand W I
f.
ett =ss temporary. g,yraeg Pohhc Ikalth servWe were an Sers ece turned eNo n t he
,bv the f ederal Water Pollo.
Grand JunctWan w hen thee state',s request. In its reytew I'08 M**'
I'"n"'t
""h 8 Id'
letter the A E Cfs aJsacw mas a U S.
Sur Cema!
tuon Centrol Aectwy as ente m8Kcd truti.m e's:sadm:r f.11 scread erse of tathn3s ist con.
edressate for a pnad of 20 mio an enaswon. What,
strucuon materuin. ror sand based on the assertiam that issued halsh gued61.ncs fue years or 30.
Cateht thur eye was that the traps on crds cournes and the har.h levels of racem sort,om rais.oxtivity ms.de I
"8
- L oe** sty I'ir chd tren*s e,es%ses
- Lo then hand to the hnmes by liomet estabbshms there caic.
sm"'1 "*L w is'uramurs tunnes, Consolcems t*>e cose. the gmte ew of f er4 rs port of the bcitth dapartm-nt "can tse Stores hasal on radiatu n states diJ mt ewect that st other r.ics so. tid I.e.o co,e wluth m te danm.hrd a Pt bbc Afrilth 5 rure meet.
cepetted from saideal ride >
level ((1) No action tequireJ.
ered by the een. es sohmt.ne.ly from sand by twar frer grme eng 1.ek! in Leom u m IM4 actinty Therefore.* ps b urr (2) remco.al a.tarm surces.ed.
--a jnb th* A LC. nose e e, and a ray shade After erns.
-mesch was an a-l ~1 Iry Dr crmalu6cd. "a harther tank and g2) repeteal actmes end '
mased would engt mare than 180nin4 the trist h drivers.
Miker and otust A LC. relF pi mt prorrane... does not i
pahsis he A E.C. in s **'a's cated T 810 mdhnen but whah would Oey *termmad that One e Fuhaldy cosa five tanwg thag doreen ye ars poiscle of the
+risentatives meeset w arrantcut "
pn out that sne sanely fd4 ewd an the arca
- dations *are 6thcult to im-was erannes., t.niing.s. Sm en from the Chmas Uranswie Co*funy enell an downtown Grenel Jeant6404
.m I
~,,.h
s 3
.3 piement Persuarl thr,de met Accordestv. a plag has ban nee,, the salt, the watee ee.
e ed,-and y s'we remnh.f acten atq=rwsed f** IW**nent d""
places she salt?
eensnept aseiL' pew 8 e'I s** all'd "h'84"*'d Aa A E C. report se the
= trees sies Yeme Hewse i
.,,t,a,,ser he,,sh,e,,, year, se inser- **'e s
- ho'"'ue 'nu' h **"
- "*** 8' 'M*W th*8 '"***
, y,,,
,,mme.,ce, pian lanum
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of me A.ienta Sait c.
- ae"'"cd s***'7,,'7",,C We a*= a-e'E C'e a' co med,ee,ee g9
.empre.,d.sf ramen.neauves
<'a of theCobitade fs ysrtiaint of a sdl b v,.sia.m wesu-e.
m,
r 500 een's te the A sw*
pubbe Ise.itsi, she U 9 Puhe the reaumt en LYeas. **
2 -
pmee d,um, ai,o. the team By H. Peter MetsTer Headsh Servlie. 5%e A E C '94 nionsenacue damn a
,,,g: -g the course of drilhag
- BHCh r
the ni wly creHeJ Fnv Je.
seuil holes.. watw starUd i
eneeset Pn eten Arency d#'""
^
ledh',na into Hic (E p A 5. was formed toilwstde Nge t= mal lJ W'W none Pe-g.
1 one of W many gas a
what pie reinedy was to be sana this year er ed bore holes in the area on the e,commeceaawat of
-our dechine to go to salt had beee saterereted? Dr.
thev ese aw4ered adv'sdrY for prtmanrat h'gh ervel sob Wdisam W Htmb8cton. the d6 group, they voted last mas"e-pesal as one of the meat fara sector of the Marisas Geneest.
h
~ie recommend comt>'e r reathin2 dertuens we oe. for cal Sors ey, ren.orkeit. "we nuoval of att iaJee*9 wnfin le that snatur. acy technol*O*8s felt the L)um sa'e increassag-feet of a h4statle strbriure *
-hate ewr m ade T hese ty looked hke a Iraky sneve t This was a twcal posiason wasses can be hannedous for thmk they (fre A.E.CJ are for pathe bestth peopt*: If a
,p t.. misioon years. We sewat resha*ca that too" I
danger se present. semove et:
therefore be as certain as one Although the A E C. has yet never chasse a temporary so-csa passa.ly be of snithms to conccJe the point. perre-hstsee d a permanent one es*
data.
- that the wastes ence secues-sentause skututa said this tered en the sait. can..nder ao moc?h that "the Lyone wie m Pr conceivable cirs umet ances-ej ed.ctably. the A LC. vet.
dead as a dando for waste p,, rat the monen. but con
- in contact wath the Die" burist"
. Coloreae was encourared te senefe?
see that the Ep A. retcse9' And to after 1S )eers and
$an deposits are ea, of me slotHulhon worth of studes
.atsves supourted the awauona carth's tightest geolog' cal
- **P'e"ments. the A E C,
, for it was og:esy suspected foemahons. The minerars witart th short spanotabout that the agen y would back the A LC. Yhts was accause compressed streegth una,kre it.
seres months, has been per-m g,
.n es ellent suaded to ber a tonking for moet enemhers o' the g P.A.a g,,,,,,,,er,,,,
gut siew winds are begin-g another place. What had has>
effice of redisuon procrame
,y,,, o, 734,2,,on pres.
nmg to blow through %e e,a go, i wer.
pened was samp!e enough; Ee
' were former AEC. pertie AEC The chairman who aria scheif.d hot radioactive A LC. plan was made pubiae whose ruimt oes Pad been took over in AwAt. Dr.
wantos packed in 10 foot.
and was therefore swheed tremferred to the new seency Jasnes R.
Schlesarger. Itas as port of pres. dent Namen s long sta.nices steet Cylmders to entside cruicism and ope 4 aus,ned the atomet energy m+
war aborteve effort to ddute the th, roues a shaft to the ftoor discussion. flaws in the ry that ute commisserm's
, the mane The cyhr.dess scheme were discovered and ALC"s refulatory 1** 8TS function will chin? From But me sevpacens of A E C.-
wit l t,e coscred with sa6t.
they could not be made le go de mception." ScMeseter ad-mich wel en throuRn u.e away sometmes had te give-I Influence revived when D'f nutted in has hrst pokey ad-stees and at the narre tune Pad Twephens dercetor o
dress this month. "the A E C.
l the dnscon, told The Rocky mest into a plast 6c.hke sub-O the probtens has not has fostered end protected she stance th.t wol everitually been solved. Daud Ldiefuhal.
nuclear industry
- In the fu-Mountan: News that the vnte 3
d,d not represtat E F A/s real
.s.eal the wastes mee their the hrst chairman of the ture.he said. t. e commissma s pvC A LC. and a man who be-role would be a more landed Po8 hom. "* ' ' ** *d lag'that the 'ta'nhnte'ecm"e out In a hurry to get movmg.
Ileves that somewhere along onw privnardy to perform as the A.LC. asked the Joent the way the a;:ency strayed a referee serveng the pubeac g
no statter hnw smaa tie levej er how tut'estve the cesr*
front ets oregmal asm of de.
tuterest" Comem,,u,,se,,en Atenue Enerfy ased Toa skaat we&ppmg nuclear power. fects Even af Schfesmaer sue-3 gg
,,,,ove a 525 that waste has been badfy ceeds in transforming the The battle lines are alreade nuihon appropriaten to begin neglected by the A E C. The draws on the ossue of who only three menins latet se agency, though. the A E.C.
reason, he says. is that It a edt pay the $2Smilhon D.tt sure was the sommeeseen that tannot avoed responsibehty for for the semovat poh.
Tae Lyons w as the not place just not as stamorous as past errors, like the taumg A E C. still stands by the 1968 that the director of the div>
other profects that the A E C.
mess. At the very least. the spin en of sta lefai ceun*
sium of rearler deselopm nt has Rouen brwolved aft. hke commastson should press for sel, Joseph F. Hennessey, that tohl the cornmastet that fur-the abortese act eme for a bd.
funds to remove the rate-tashngs are not unhr the ther researca *welf not he hon. nod a-hau donar nuclear active maternal from buildmg agesicys juradiction. Perhaps inarticularly productne? But airplar:e. In a recent enferverw.
f9undahone. While there does the piott cur:cus attatade es the egency did not have the Lihenthat said: "Can't we had not scept to be any feasible that of US ltepresentatsve free hand et had in Colorado Wayne N. Antunail. commess-20 years ago. Dernocrat c Go.
some young people une new method of.6sposmg of the Robert IL Dockmr afsd Pecul'k aJess to take case of the waste p.les, the commnoson could man rects the Grand hectson problem? n duzes first+a'e seek legislation to guarantee area for more than 20 ytars fican Conrrcssman Joe Sk*
and chaarman of int subcoin-beta were openly opposed. but,
,We could solve the prohkal that they wil: be hattened, osite and fre a.l and get us cosered and pushed away mutes on raw materia's et the mure unputtant. so was the down to the re21 bcsiness of from streame-and tne pubhc Jemt Conwnstree on Atomet Mansas Geological Survey Energy. whei se raised the supplymg power for America's kept out queuson of fmancia T% Km Geological $ur future?
vey had been sery radical of y st e*
A plausible alternatave to CHLES!NGER'5 concept of the A E C.'s hasse. pcmting 8"1 th88 **t ****8# 88 k"**8 salt bed desposai has been put the commuason ones promise guated the Con sman as forth by sesentists at the to reverse ers courve. for the saying 9he coa about IM pre-Jergmund watef at the Lyons sue. Water must AEC's h m W m m mag W m a g
g_ g be kept assy from tre sait I.a*Joratory m Cahlorma, who are ao gn,a sure the nahna that its atomec bede durme the mdhose or s*
leave proposed to store the managers will responsibly 8
y
g gg,gg,, y g,y years of concern, for af any en-waste m a cavern created by handle the deadly nuc! ear a nuclear espr sion eetonated trash of the futs:re.
o ters the casera, at would pre
- GorA feet underground. Un*
An esposing view *as #4-vent tight sraung of the rad ds-If the Great Pyramed at press =d 87 Glenn L K l' hke the Kansas mine, wbch acuve woues Contarnested Glaa in T pt had been a the feessdent of sats atop a water-bearme iaF s,nd heated by the racioacu**
er m the earth, this Pleur" reasosctive waste depuestory, Doord of Netithi *I s'iould materml. the water mtht share bfethod" would provide" if uraniurn ladmgs had bees think Mr. Aspanall's first re-percelate sete nearby some a far deeper ca7m that would anterred in the structure when sponsibdity shouktn't he to shafts and uridergmund water be well tetow 8%3hNe water-it was budt. Shout 13 per cent the A E C. but to the home.
depplics, or rise as vapet of the redtum contaened Pt saaers in Gramd Jimason. g throu:;!n the masn shaft and bearms rocks. Perhaps snore those taihngs woutJ Std! be import ant, the new method
' submit that the Federal Gov-
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cama"'. W'*Ef#"C' d'eposda a're'
- ntakt avoed the tuertis of the dangerous todav. If that ma-ernment has eserci eu.
W san treme irrespcasAht, sed tM least hkeiy place to imd '
cashest waste of them adt tend were pidonium (the giegteaumggeancepw.4he Kan*
in the sa. ptan calls for transportauon setuation and Mr. Aepmall is a reserve of naural water, a of not wastes from all over astural decay in almost 3 000 suckinn his head to the san.1 pmblem may anse fmm tN country to bons Ender years M Pardly hive made when he d.klamis that." Gue.
Wauhc Jmning operataana the Plowshare getsvi. orie cow' a dent: 33 pee cent of the ereor Love told a press cois-et an Ameracan Salt (manY era near each of tFm nuclest radtaactivity orips.ly pres-ference hier that armia. t mne near the pmpasad cent fugteprocenmg pr.nts could eat would be enh us now.
feel the responsibehty decs Um company weote to the contam all de e;ectnc smiass-Our c vitsaatun er this nu-rest sah she Federst C,overn.
A LC, abotst the protJem tast try's nuclear waste untal the
- IC*# *I' ment., neure stweefacally she summer. A spokesman told hstn of the century.
s s t
A E t.
The fvmtr Pet that EPe far-y tet "chutts%fd concern about fiut the A EC. stems to re-Tng the' presence of water" and stain ccenmistral to a sall name our m. stakes are atmost be-
, yond the pmver to emJgtne.
p,uarms of c,and dump. Floyd Culkr of the junthost b*ar esteg srt.sntly ost Sh30 b'I EO*l$NY "b8d bd'O Oait RIdre IUt'esal IJbora.
nothmg less than mfalitNe.
Our tecimotortus snust be e sotil assier (sr eist eat aan jrifestent watt'r inta the tory tecesitiv to'd be Jonet i
telay; ra,sh'Wtsve m aste6,.
formation for 50 years as m,e Commettee on At. mise Derty-Accordmgly, everythmg must he Jone to secrea se our peu w cave been enap,4
-If we stan on tw vt. thes chances of beim nrht when in 14 2 nest k3r effratta t he by goUy. #e AEVe E91 to Staft we brielly def de meat to do.
Production of a sad atoeme eser on a 20 wse process As e surt. we ran scra e some aratsat asted the drgelopene.nl 98th g)Paurn lae ls. oc basalt, humshty front the fact that Of nuilt er-rextue ek ctrac er something c!s? Thus, the only fase yeart M8 04 Lecil-gestt' rett" *.tatsragsg. Br.tly prge cNMW in Malh.rq (OF pg'ggfssib ro'dd Ed MWO doce peeriones quanusee, of altmauve *Mn to Lpms Just of how safety could lurn mie Outlear weste, lug qt-e gerq>
OE $8 the Mc 'N t'9e nestllad*
danger in Grand JunChon, Jrtis4 am*pustt tru?Q the f.g.
Ingk etM8C te d3al440s i
ctrar. reaf ter enddatry wit!
Colo. 3 dwsrf that Pircasty Deterlesred I'"9 88 I f
- ~*** b"ll Sound
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fenen tia mespnas program.
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