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Richard Wilson, professor of Physics, said a State Department official phoned him on Wednesday. Wilson, who is the chairman of a Massachusetts committee now investigating the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant accident, said the evidence he has seen "seems to be fairly convincing" that the September 22 event was a nuclear explosion...
...PRESIDENT'S COMMISSION on the accident at Three Mile Island reached some baffling conclusions last week. The commission indicted the entire nuclear industry for equipment design faults, poorly trained plant operators, and inadequate emergency procedures and said an accident like the one last spring in Harrisburg, Pa., was "eventually inevitable...
Sampson, a native of Wilmington, Del., earned his B.A. at Augustana College in Rock Island, Ill., in 1970, and concentrated in Church (now known as Applied Theology) in the Masters of Theological Studies program at the Divinity school. "He was very politically active all the way through," one of Sampson's friends at the Div School, who asked to remain unidentified, said yesterday...
...said she made "extensive efforts" to reach the NRC "but there was no one there, there was no emergency number and no 24-hour manning" like there used to be. An indignant Ray said she considered the situation "incomprehensible" and with a less-than-discreet reference to Three Mile Island, reminded the NRC that "emergencies do occur...
...PROBLEM, IN A WORK, is political. As usual, it's taken a crisis of sorts to prompt any action. With Three Mile Island fresh in their minds, people in the United States cringe at anything labelled 'nuclear' or 'radioactive.' "When you mention radioactivity," explains Dr. Warren E. C. Wacker, director of University Health Services, "everybody goes into orbit." As City Councilor Alfred E. Vellucci's election eve hysteria in Cambridge indicates, waste disposal is a political hot potato. "Nuclear hysteria," volunteers Dr. Ralph R. DiSibio, Nevada director of human resources, "is spreading...