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...Sequoyah Fuels processes uranium concentrate into ingredients for bombs and nuclear-power- plan t fuel. The factory has been cited in the past for safety lapses, including a 1986 leak that killed one worker and released toxic uranium hexafluoride gas into the environment. Moreover, it is owned by Kerr-McGee, the Oklahoma City-based company implicated in the radioactive contamination of 73 workers at another facility -- the case uncovered in 1974 by the late Karen Silkwood...
...Kerr-McGee hoped its $1.38 million settlement with Silkwood's heirs had lifted the cloud of controversy from its operations, the furor that erupted last week dashed that hope. A spate of news reports revealed that Sequoyah has for more than a decade, with Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) approval, been converting radioactive wastewater, called raffinate, into fertilizer and spraying it over company-owned fields. Hay grown on the fields has then been sold as feed to farmers and ranchers. Nearby residents charge that the fertilizer may be contaminating the Arkansas River and the water table near the Oklahoma-Arkansas border...
Herschbach would not comment on the case. andneither Moses nor McGee could be reached forcomment...
...night of the party, the studentscomplied with a first request to turn their musicdown, but when McGee asked the students to turnthe music off around 2 a.m., Pierce argued thatCollege rules allowed him to keep the music on ata low level. When the argument grew heated, McGeeconfiscated Pierce's bursar's card and left...
...McGee then asked both Rak and a Harvardpoliceman to make the students turn their musicdown. Rak arrived first and then left to get acopy of the Quincy House handbook to check thenoise regulations...