May 18, 1994 (vol. 104, iss. 3) • Page Image 5
…:Nuclear Energy: a Tragic Waste 3y Christa Williams Dec. 25, 1993 - The nearby Fermi II iuclear power plantbore arather undesir- ble gift unto the world: 1.5 million gallons if radioactive water, the result of a "minor ncident." The accident and the silence urrounding it are not unusual. The Nuclear gulatory Commission (NRC)docu- nented 30,000 mishaps at U.S. nuclear >ower plants from 1979 to 1987, and hardly nyoneever heardabout the partial ...…