Rally supports nuclear plant
NZPA-Reuter. Washington } More than 2000 people ral- i lied in an unusual protest < yesterday — -supporting the 1 building of a .nuclear power i plant threatened, by rising costs. 1 The demonstration was i spurred by reports that the ! Bonneville Power Administration was planning to suspend work on one of three plants under construction by the Washington public power supplv system. B.P.A.’s administrator, Peter Johnson/is reportedly ready to accept a recommendation to defer construction on one plant for five years.
Rally speakers said they had learned that Mr Johnson would call. for a five-year delay in completing plant No. 1, located on the Hanford nuclear reservation. Slowing down No. 1 for five years would raise its cost by ?17 billion, said a State Representative, Ray Isaacson.' “We have to make it understood ■ we will not take this lying down,” he said. Local residents have supported nuclear power and other nuclear projects since Hanford played a big part in the Manhattan Project that produced the atomic bomb during World War 11.
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