Description: Michael Dukakis, John Sununu, Joseph Brennan, Madeleine Kunin, William O'Neill, and Edward DiPrete hold a panel on Seabrook Nuclear Power Plant. Dukakis and Sununu comment on their opposing views. Massachusetts Energy Secretary Sharon Pollard comments on a potential energy crisis. Following the edited story is b-roll footage from the panel presentations.
Description: Lab interior at New England Nuclear in Boston. Technicians in white coats, gloves, protective shoe coverings. Working at glass shields titrating liquids in vials, flasks. Rat in plastic bin. Radiation detection meter, geiger counter clicking. “Caution Radioactive Material” sign. Waste bins being emptied. Solutions manufactured from isotopes “tagged” with tritium or carbon-14 for biomedical research tracers.
Description: New England Produce Center in Chelsea. Many tractor trailer trucks pull in and out. Fork lift moves pallet of vegetable crates. Cabbages loaded onto back of truck. Fuel tank being filled with diesel. Boxes of strawberries.
Description: New Hampshire restaurateur says it used to be much easier to finance a new business. Gov. Judd Gregg says banking system must be rehabilitated. Concord commercial district. NH Savings Bank.
Description: New Orleans longshoremen's union (I.L.A.) endorses Dukakis for president. Stevedores, dockworkers, loading cargo on Mississippi River. Also, George Bush faces press corps with Dan Quayle during convention.