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Energy department rectifying ‘past sins’
WASHINGTON — Seeking to
“rectify past sins” in the operation of
weapons reactors, Energy Depart
ment officials on Tuesday announced
new safety procedures that they said
would delay the reopening of the
Savannah River Plant but would not
jeopardize the nation’s nuclear deter
rent
“We are about to embark on a
program to restart, to move back to a
safe operating level, tliose reactors...
at the end of the year,” Energy Secre
tary John S. Herrington told a news
conference called to discuss prob
lems with the three reactors at Savan
nah River.
Department officials had planned
to restart one of the reactors as early as
November, but now plan to begin a
four-week “phased restart” that will
begin in December, said Herrington’s
deputy, Joseph F. SaJgado.
SaJgado sought tocalm fears about
possible shortages of the nuclear
weapons material produced at Savan
nah River, especially of tritium,
which decays more quickly than plu
tonium, the other fuel pixxluced there.
“We are comfortable that Savan
nah River will operate at a sufficient
level to meet the tritium needs of the
future," Salgado told reporters.
The news conference was called to
defuse criticism of the Energy De
partment not only over the Savannah
River Plant, located in Aiken, S.C.,
but also over radioactive contamina
tion at another facility in Rocky Flats,
Colo., and over allegedly lax security
at weapons laboratories in New
Mexico and California.
In related developments Tuesday:
• President Reagan voiced concern
about the safety problem during a
meeting with top officials of the de
partments of Defense and Energy,
chief of staff Kenneth Dubcrstein
said.
Duberstein, in an interview with
the wire services, quoted Reagan as
telling the administration officials
that “we are most concerned and most
committed to making sure that all
safely precautions are taken and that
all rules and regulations be fol
lowed.
• The chairman of El. du Pont
Nemours and Co., which operates
Savannah River under contract for the
Energy Department, reacted angrily
to charges that company employees
had a lax attitude about nuclear
safety.
• Officials said the shutdown of the
Rocky Flats’ main plutonium proc
essing plant on Saturday virtually
halted production at the nuclear
weapons plant
• Congressional researchers said
the Energy Department has admitted
hundreds of visitors from communist
and nuclear-sensitive nations into its
nuclear weapons labs at Sandia, Los
Alamos and Livermore without re
quired security checks.
• Sen. John Glenn, D-Ohio, said
the cost of cleaning up radioactive
and hazardous waste at Energy De
partment nuclear facilities is esti
mated at S150 billion to S175 billion.
He cited estimates by Energy Depart
ment officials and the General Ac
counting Office.
“My opponent needs as issue
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recent emphasis on a need to re
gain American dominance in
world economic competition.
Dukakis counterpunched a few
hours later as he left Boston for the
West Coast “I’m for more unde,
not less trade. I want to export
American products, not American
jobs,” he said.
Dukakis also took a fresh swipe
at the Republican vice presidential
candidate as new polls indicated
Bush’s tickeunate is draining sup
port from the GOP. Said Dukakis:
what seemed to be a concession
that Bush’s double-digit lead there
could not be overcome. The two
were headed for Ohio, a swing
state where Dukakis is viewed as
trailing more narrowly.
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