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Lobbyists from Harvard and other Massachusetts universities are scrambling to meet a Wednesday deadline to file amendments to a recently passed law restricting the storage of low-level radioactive waste...
Other nuclear issues were on the ballots in several states. In Massachusetts, voters backed a proposal that would require a referendum before any new low-level nuclear-waste site or power plant could be established. But nuclear power, a whipping boy in recent years, fared well in Maine, which rejected a measure that would have closed down the state's only functioning nuclear-power plant. Idaho voters, meanwhile, required the legislature to seek voter approval before endorsing construction of nuclear-power facilities...
...approved easily as a voter referendum in Tuesday's election, places tight restrictions on the disposal of low-level radioactive waste in Massachusetts and surrounding states...
Question 3: Restriction Low-Level Radioactive., Waste Disposal and Nuclear Power Plant Construction...
Question 3 requires that the construction or operation of any new nuclear power plant or disposal facility for low-level radioactive waste be examined by the legislature to insure that it meets certain standards, and then be approved by a majority of voters at a statewide election. The law would exempt storage or disposal facilities for wastes generated by medical or bio-research, as well as facilities that had received all needed government approvals poor to August...