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Show Nuclear Tests ( Be Subject Of , County Meetings s Underground nuclear weapons ' testing and other U.S Department ' of Energy programs will be the focus fo-cus of public meetings set for the Bryce Valley area and for Escalante. The Bryce Valley meeting will be held at Bryce Valley High School at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, June 22 and in Escalante at the Community Center at 7:30 p.m. the following night. Representatives of the DOE Nevada Operations office, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the University of Nevada's Neva-da's Desert Research Institute (DRI) will discuss activities at the Nevada Test Site (NTS) and the DOE's Community Radiation Monitoring Program. A one-hour presentation is set with additional time for questions ques-tions and answers. According to Nate (W search associate with DRi't ,q eral government began ,e n weapons testing at u, M 1951. Since the sign n Ts J Limited Test Ban &. t f Pa i Pr The Wednesday and ThBr. $ meetings are designed tof J the public with the activity r place at the NTS. ci so The meetings, said Coon.. S' meantiobeinformadveandft.'1 Uonal and, within the parampr I national security, will addrec? questions the public mav V about the site. ' r The original research at DRi 1 gan some 20 years ago on u c ground water and the effect on ' k 8 radionuclides. Research has J 1 expanded to include a great v": of projects concerned with tW ? tection of health. F DRI, said Cooper, is const- to be the "watchdog" 0f't i environment. Some 20 Si' members of the 200 at DRI J 1 i their time exclusively V 1 environmental health protection j1 1 is only one of the many grj'- ; including the University of Ut with similar focus. j On both nights in Carfr ' County's meetings, Robert Tafi:;i ' the manager's office of the Nev:i Operations Office, DOE, will sti on activities of the N00. He v be followed by Daryl Thome, ct; of the Field Monitoring Branch i the EPA. He will discuss the r tion monitoring program wis;1 began in August 1981. The put will view a film on the testing;; nuclear weapons. Also taking part in the prop-will prop-will be Dr. Paul Fenske, execute director of the Water Resource Center at DRI. Refreshments will follow the question and answer period, and everyone ev-eryone is encouraged to attend and to be prepared to ask questions. |