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Nuclear waste site hearing

Description: Citizens testify against proposed sites for dumping nuclear waste in New Hampshire. Sununu. Snowy rural environs. Seabrook aerial. Radioactive.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 04/01/1986

PCBs in New Bedford

Description: Landfill dump in New Bedford. Seagulls hover over trash. Contaminated with PCBs from industrial waste. Aerovox capacitor manufacturer.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 04/12/1979

Prolerized car crushers

Description: Crushed cars and construction scrap become shredded metal, recycled by Prolerized Company, whose end-product is cited for contamination by PCBs and toxic materials.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 06/22/1988

Radioactive waste disposal

Description: Interview about disposal of low-level radioactive waste at MIT. Can store six months' worth from research. Lab environs from which the waste is a byproduct.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 11/14/1979

SUPERFUND CLEANUP

Description: DIGGING THROUGH HAZARDOUS WASTE SITE, MEN IN PROTECTIVE CLOTHING, TREATMENT PLANT. Superfund
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 11/30/1984

Seabrook on verge of startup

Description: On verge of startup, Seabrook operators are eager to show off the facility. Nuclear waste disposal problem is unsolved. Tour of training control room. View of Seabrook domes through bare trees.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/07/1990

Suit over toxic cleanup

Description: Environmental activists sue state to make funds available for hazardous waste cleanup. John DeVillars.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 05/29/1990

TOCN show tape

Description: 1) Human services secretary Charles Mahoney speaks to advocates about increasing accountability and facing cutbacks; Hubie Jones rebuts. 2) Utah Gov. Scott Matheson speaks to Congressional committee on presumed radiation danger from nuclear fallout, comparing power plant reactor accidents and leaks to atom bomb tests. 3) Citizens group questions safety of Pilgrim I plant in Plymouth and requests shutdown and independent monitoring. 4) Michael Wheeler on public opinion about government regulation. 5) Massachusetts legal drinking age is raised to 20 while adjacent states are at 18; New Hampshire state liquor store; Sen. Sharon Pollard; neighboring alcohol sellers see boon to business. 6) R.D. Rosen visits New Age Exposition; counterculture accoutrements and tofu tasting. Anchor Lydon.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 04/19/1979

TOCN show tape

Description: 1) Interview with Paul Doty and Uri Ra'anan on Soviet downing of KAL plane. 2) Brief on EPA declaring new hazardous waste sites eligible for Superfund cleanup, including Sullivan's Ledge Quarry in New Bedford contaminated with PCBs, and Iron Horse Park in Billerica for asbestos. 3) Brief on Boston police commissioner Joseph Jordan entering alcohol detox center in RI. 4) Nuclear magnetic resonance imaging (NMR or MRI) at Mass. General Hospital; file of spinal x-ray and CAT scan; patient being prepared to enter tube chamber; brain images; Bailus Walker, public health commissioner discusses relative merits and costs of the new technology for earlier diagnosis. Anchors Lydon and Harris.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 09/01/1983

The Liquidator, Inc.

Description: Interview about illegal chemical waste disposal at The Liquidator, Inc. in Dorchester. Lot of Liquidator enclosed by chain link fence around trailer, shipping containers, scrap metal and tire heaps, corroded barrels. Closure posting from Boston Board of Health. “Hazardous building” sign.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 06/28/1979