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Rappahannock may soon have its own anti-nuke group, judging by audience reaction to last Wednesday’s program on the dangers inherent with nuclear power.
Those who viewed the NBC documentary at the Washington community center on disposal of nuclear wastes voiced two reactions—fear and anger. Anger at what the utilities and government are allowing to happen and fear at what it may mean to this and future generations.
Organized by Dr. Donal Day, assistant physics professor at UVa and member of the Piedmont Alliance for Safe Energy ;PASE), the program emphasized the failure of industry and government to avoid fthe perils in disposing of nuclear waste.
According to the film, at an Atlantic Richfield facility built in 1940, nuclear wastes with a radioactive life of 700 years are stored in huge underground tanks that will last only 40 years. Hundreds of thousands of gallons of radioactive water leaked from one of these tanks before a hole was discovered and sealed. Since then, there have been 19 more leaks. Concerned scientists are worried that the contaminated water may find its way through the underground water table to the nearby Colorado River and from there into the Pacific Ocean with disastrous effects on the environment.
It is conceivable that this one storage facility may leak radioactive wastes with such a high concentration that all
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