社会繁荣和进步的标志 heerleaders at Hanford, Washington State exposed to unhealthy levels of this iodine by drinking milk from cows grazing in contaminated pastures. In Fernald, Ohio, a red and white checkerboard design on a water tower and the name"Feed Materials Produc tion Center" led some residents to believe a local firm produced animal feed. Instead it made uranium rods and components for warheads. Residents were stunned to find out that for thirty - five years, the plant had dumped radioactive refuse into pits in the ground that regularly overflowed when it rained. The plant also discharged 167,000 pounds of wastes into a local river and released about twice that much into the air. Though these actions were taken by the private company that ran the plant. they were approved and even encouraged by the supposed regulators, the Atomic Energy Commission. As Senator John Glenn(D-Ohio) commented ironically, "We are poisoning our people in the name of national security To protect the safety of workers and residents in the and other nuclear plant sites, the Department of Energy 3 which now regulates them, believes that sI3 billion may be d immediately. To make the plants safe in the longer m, and to dismantle and decontaminate those no longer ed, may take close to $200 billion more In the 1990s, the bill for carelessness and neglect is coming due 1. Cas Petcrmon, "A Monumental Cleanup Job," Washington Post Na Weekly Edition, December 12-18, 1989. p. IL Nuckear Danger and Deceit. Nrwawcek October 31, 1988, pp 29-30 3."They Lied to Us, Time. October 31. 1988. p 64 Other Souroe: John Hannahan."Testing Ground,Common Cause civic pride in the nuclear weapons plant located nearly srate the Cheerleaders at Hanford, Washington High January/ February 1989)Cheerleaders at Hanford, Washington State上一张 社会繁荣和进步的标志