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Hanford, Wash. Already used as a depository for low-level radioactive wastes, the tract in southeastern Washington is owned by the Federal Government. Its disadvantage, in the view of environmentalists, is that it is in the Columbia Basin. The Energy Department proposes carving a cavern in the basalt rock some 3,000 ft. below the surface, and contends that the radioactivity could never seep into underground water sources or the river. Many job-conscious residents of the three nearby cities of Kennewick, Richland and Pasco were happy that their area remained under consideration. "We're better educated about nuclear...
Yucca Mountain, Nev. Federally owned, the site northwest of Las Vegas covers part of Nellis Air Force Base, the Nevada nuclear-weapons test area and a Bureau of Land Management tract. A volcanic-rock formation 1,500 ft. below the surface would house the waste. Opponents believe that nuclear blasts at the test range could disturb the buried materials. Robert Revert, who owns gas stations in Beatty, estimates that 90% of local residents favor the dump. Says he: "Our young people are out of work. Maybe we could turn this around with Yucca Mountain...
Like many other rural congregations, the Kinmundy United Methodist Church (congregation: 170) in southern Illinois has long relied on the collection plate for its modest income. But all that changed this year when a tract of farm land, which had been willed to the church nearly 30 years ago, began spewing oil at the rate of 165 bbl. a day and producing $10,000 royalty checks for the church every month. Since then the membership has been arguing over God's intentions for the money...
Levitt's secret, now as in the past, is the size of the developments. Says he: "We can offer homes at a fraction of the general market price. That's only possible when you have a large tract of land on which you can preplan, presell and run an assembly line, which is what...
Because of its long history, phosgene's effects on humans are well known. Inhalation causes severe lung injury, but since the gas has no effect on the upper respiratory tract, victims have no immediate warning, other than a musty odor, that they have breathed in a poisonous gas. Choking is usually the first symptom. Then the lungs eventually fill with fluid and asphyxiation occurs. In most cases of moderate exposure to MIC, the effects are treatable. Even small doses of phosgene, however, can be lethal...