Floating nuclear plants proposed for ocean site safety
A draft report by Offshore Power Systems and Nuclear Regulatory Commission advisers argues floating offshore reactors could be safer than land based units by reducing earthquake risk and population exposure. It compares accident impacts, notes a watertight steel platform, and cites eight proposed plants at Jacksonville Florida.
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Los Angeles
UPI
Offshore Power Systems
Westinghouse Electric Corp
Nuclear
Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Advisory Committee
Jacksonville
Fla
Rescued California Man Recalls Three Weeks Afloat
Durel Miller 28 and Nancy Perry 21 from San Anselmo survived after drifting in the Pacific for three weeks. Their 36 foot Spirit sank en route from Honolulu to California Sept. 27. rescued Oct. 19 by the Oriental Financier in the Pacific near Yokohama. Perry seriously ill, Miller strong, both treated in Yokohama. Two crewmates died after 18 days at sea. another was rescued by the U.S. Coast Guard. Miller says they faced hunger and relied on thoughts of home to endure. He cites a desire for excitement and a critique of his generation's goals.
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Yokohama
Japan
UPI
Pacific
Durel Miller
Spirit
Honolulu
California
Miller
Nancy Perry
Oriental Financier
San Anselmo
Miss Perry
Lorrain Perry
Honmoku
Bluff Hospital
Perry
Jim Ahola
Camilla Arthur
Bruce Collins
U.S. Coast Guard
Four Year Murder Toll Surpasses Vietnam Deaths
San Francisco reports at the National Homicide Symposium that over the first four years of this decade more Americans were murdered than in the entire Vietnam War. Stanford’s Dr. Donald T. Lunde presents figures showing typical killers aged about 21, women committing 25 percent of murders, 70 percent of victims are relatives or friends, only 2 percent are criminally insane, alcohol involved in about half of homicides, with regional differences and murder now a major death cause.
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San Francisco
UPI
Stanford University
Donald T. Lunde
Stanford
Lunde
United States
New England
Bishops Stop Short of Endorsing Prop 14 in California
The California Conference of Catholic Bishops said it would not endorse Prop 14 on the November ballot while urging protection for the Agricultural Labor Relations Board from political manipulation. The statement backed the ALRA as debated in 1975 and supported the access rule for union organizers, stressing stability and the common good in private property use.
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Sacramento
UPI
California Conference of Catholic Bishops
Agricultural Labor Relations Board
Farm Labor Initiative
John Cummins
Acess
Farm Labor Board
ALRA
ALRB
Cummins
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Asher Yadlin
Israel
Michael Simon
Yadlin
Labor Party
Central Bank
Labor Movement Health Fund
Wella
Lompoc
Vietnam
Pauline Lewis
John Dickie
Roger Mahony
James
Jan Barber
Lilley
Virgil Phelps
Treas
Howard Whitaker
Lompoc Hospital
Board of Directors
E. Ocean Ave
Lompoc Valley
Doorbuster NO
Super Savings
McMahan
Lam
Easie
McMahons
Calif
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