Description: MICHAEL DUKAKIS PREPARES TO TESTIFY BEFORE NRC ON NUCLEAR PLANT SAFETY AND EVACUATION PLANS
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 02/19/1987
Description: Dukakis' catch phrases and dwelling on competence do not deliver message to voters. Late in campaign, he focuses on vision and populist theme: opportunity for underclass. Tours factory wearing safety glasses.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 10/20/1988
Description: Eastern pilots concerned over safety and maintenance records. They fear airline is cutting corners to reduce costs, thereby jeopardizing passengers and pilots. Jet being refueled.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/23/1987
Description: Emergency evacuation drill at Pilgrim Station in Plymouth. Geiger counter.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 12/10/1986
Description: Evacuation plan for Plymouth in case of accident at Pilgrim nuclear power plant is questioned. Civil defense authorities have confidence. Siren test is unreliable. Called “blueprint for chaos.” Signs for Plymouth Rock, Hanover Mall, Plymouth police headquarters, Carver fire station.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 05/13/1986
Description: Proposed evacuation plan for Seabrook nuclear power plant is to serve six bordering Massachusetts towns. Awareness of potential radiation danger is heightened because of recent Chernobyl accident.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 04/30/1986
Description: Seabrook proposes to relocate residents to Fort Devens in emergency evacuation. Army will consider. Rep. Chester Atkins, Nicholas Mavroules. Barracks, jeeps, soldiers in camouflage uniforms, army base.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 09/24/1987
Description: Atomic Safety & Licensing Board holds hearing on suitability of Seabrook evacuation plan; refuses to take public testimony, so opponents can not be heard.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 10/05/1987
Description: Massachusetts towns near Seabrook ban siren poles as emergency alert system. NH Yankee tests helicopter siren alternative.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 02/26/1988
Description: LNG tanker “Isabella,” accompanied by two tug boats, approaches Distrigas terminal in Everett. Network of pipelines on deck, seen from above. Liberian flag on bow. Exxon transfer station with tank trucks. Sign “Safety has no quitting time.”
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/01/1978