News Release (April 24, 1974) TESC to host an all-day symposium on nuclear energy
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News Release (April 24, 1974) TESC to host an all-day symposium on nuclear energy
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24 April 1974
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NEWS
The Evergreen State College
Olympia. Washington
for immediate release
April 24, 1974
9BSOS
for further information
Judy Annis, 866-6128
NUCLEAR POWER SYMPOSIUM SET MAY 10 AT EVERGREEN
"Nuclear Fission Power:
A Faustian Bargain?"
is the title for an all-day
symposium scheduled MaylO, beginning at 9 a.m. at The Evergreen State College.
Organized by a group of Evergreen students, the symposium will "provide a forum
for airing of a diversity of views on the critical moral, economic, and technical
issues involved in the decision to 'go nuclear' for energy production, " according
to Ann Beug, an Evergreen research technician who is advising the student organizers.
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It is geared to the general public and based on the conviction that infor-
mation on these critical issues can and must be presented to the public in an informative, objective and comprehensive dialogue," Ms. Beug, a chemist, explained.
The symposium, which is free and open to the public, will examine such
questions as reactor safety, radioactive waste disposal, long-term, low-level radiation
exposure effects, food-chain concentration of radionuclides
(both aquatic and terrestrial),
economics of fission plants, and possible alternatives to a fission-based economy.
Confirmed symposium speakers include Dr. John Gofman, nuclear physicist and
medical doctor, and Larry Bradley, from the Washington State Department of Commerce
and a member of the Thermal Power Plant Site Evaluation Council.
Morning activities will serve as an introduction to the rest of the symposium and
will concentrate on elementary principles of nuclear fission and nuclear reactions.
light of the symposium will be an afternoon panel discussion on the topic:
Dick
Nichols.
Infor mation
Director
Services
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"Shall
High-
~2the lliited States develop a nucelar fission~based
electrical power supply system~
including use of the so~called tfast breeder reaction'?"
air both pro and con views of the controversial
The discussion will
topic.
Evening activities will focus on public access to the decision~making
process as it concerns siting, construction and operation of nuclear
and their attendant facilities.
power plants
Consideration will also he given to local issues,
including the proposed nuclear reactors at Satsop and in Skagit County.
The symposium, which will be held in the main lobby of the Evergreen library,
is open to everyone and all interested persons are
Audience participation
invited to attend.
will be. encouraged.
The symposium will also be broadcast live on Evergreem campus radio KAOS
(89.3 FM).
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