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...from a peak of 31 in 1967 to seven in 1969. New York's Consolidated Edison Co. has been forced to postpone some nuclear plants and turn to gas turbines for power. Minnesota's Pollution Control Agency has defied the Atomic Energy Commission and imposed its own stringent radiation standards on a reactor being built by Northern States Power. While the utility has gone to court to challenge the power of a state to regulate atomic energy, Vermont and Michigan have sided with Minnesota in what is becoming a critical legal test of the power...
...Deaths. Apart from the hazards of low-level radiation, there is the danger that a major reactor accident could release lethal amounts of radiation into the air. To prevent this, the AEC continually upgrades its stringent operating standards, and reactors have a far better safety record than any other major U.S. industry. Most experts agree that the chance of a major accident is exceedingly remote. But accidents do happen, as the Northeast power failure vividly demonstrated...
...gets out of hand, industrial countries frequently turn to credit rationing as one way to discourage consumer spending or excessive borrowing by business. The U.S. has shunned such restraints since the end of the Korean War. The economic distortions produced by tight money, however, have revived the demand for stringent credit control. Advocates argue that big corporations have found it comparatively easy to arrange loans while small companies have been turned down and home buyers and builders have suffered from a severe mortgage drought...
...vast store of product information, which includes test results on goods as varied as bed sheets and flatbed trucks. Legislation is now in preparation to 1) require producers of household poisons to render their containers "childproof" by making bottles and packages harder to open, 2) set up more stringent health rules in fish-processing plants, and 3) force manufacturers to guarantee the adequate performance of their products and live up to all claims that they make for them. A farther-reaching piece of legislation, being drafted by Senator Moss's Consumer Subcommittee, would set up an independent "consumer council...
Typical of Nader's battle style was his campaign for more stringent federal meat inspection at packing plants. While speed-reading the small print of a House report on Agriculture Department appropriations, Nader noticed that it urged "further studies" of the U.S. meat-inspection program. Did that mean that there had been earlier studies showing that the U.S. had a meat problem? Indeed it did, as Nader found out when he requested a copy of the little-known study at the Agriculture Department. "Nobody ever asked for this before," said the employee who handed it to him. The study gave...