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Show illogical objections Probably no technological development has been more closely supervised and policed from the standpoint of the public health than the peaceful application of atomic energy. This is particularly true of nuclear electric power generation. genera-tion. Nuclear-fueled rower plants have not only opened the way to utilization of a new energy source but are literally the answer to a nation's prayer as an important antipollution antipollu-tion aid. Clean, nuclear-fueled power plants, wherever economically economi-cally feasible, should be welcomed by everyone. And communities com-munities that are blessed with such plants should consider themselves fortunate. Yet, strangely, there are those who favor the complete abandonment of the nuclear power plant procram. They advocate the renunciation of the use of nuclear nu-clear fuels as a national energy source. The reasons for such action are vague, to say the least, since they are founded found-ed on no scientific facts. In answer to critics of nuclear energy, the head of a major power company in Minnesota a company thar is constructing a large nuclear plant has issued a statement in pamphlet form that graphically presents the facts about radiation. For example, a person living next door to the plant under construction by this company and drinking water wa-ter from the Mississippi river directly below the plant boundary boun-dary would receive about the same radioactive exposure from the plant in a year's time as a person receives in a jet airplane flight from Washington to San Francisco and return. re-turn. The pamphlet sites many other factors on the plant's safety, including its licensing by the Atomic Energy Commission. Com-mission. They add up to one irrefutable fact. Nuclear power pow-er is the answer to many of society's needs and problems, and it is here to stay. |