DOE Gives Antinukes Big Role in Deciding Brookhaven Reactor's Fate

摘要

A rabidly antinuclear group has gotten the okay from Energy Secretary Bill Richards to conduct its own safety review into the possible restart of an idled research reactor on Long Island, NY. What's more, the Department of Energy could end up paying for a study whose outcome is preordained to come out squarely against restart. The group, which calls itself "Standing for Truth Against Radiation," is dominated by well-heeled patrons from eastern Long Island's Hamptons. Its celebrity spokesman is movie star Alec Baldwin, who went on the Montel Williams talk show last year to describe how Brookhaven National Laboratory is poisoning the surrounding populace.