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Aug. 20, 1970 PRESS, Binghamton, N. Y. 9-B Atom Power Benefit Found to Outweigh Cost Anthony" POOLS World's Largest Swimming Pool Bidders SAVE '500 End of Summer Sale Aluminum Steel In ground or above ground All Pool Accessories lAZL Thomas W. Philbin a scientist hired by a group of state utilities to study thermal effects noted that "bottom organisms" are more abundant in the thermal discharge areas of the Hudson River.

Most of the studies are incomplete, Philbin said, and no conclusions could be presented about the effects on plant and fish life of a warmer Hudson River. "In the Oyster study undertaken by Long Island Lighting he said, "results to date have been sufficiently encouraging to Long Island Oyster Farms, to warrant construction of a hatchery the work may eventually be of great benefit to the depressed -Long Island oyster industry." man found that in the area in which the Connecticut Yankee Power Plant effluent is released, bluegreen algae are growing faster. Further, in the wintertime, catfish flock to the warm water (its temperature is raised by nearly 20 degrees) and proceed to lose weight and waste away. A paper presented by HEAL OOOSA 748-4431 By CAROL R. RICHARDS ALBANY (GNS) What has been the effect on New York State's environment of the three nuclear power plants in operation today? ft Not much, scientists have concluded.

Benefits have far outweighed the negative ef-; fects. Scientists from around the world gathered at the United Nations last week to discuss the atom's environmental im-pact Among other things they concluded: -The effect on the public and on the environment of ra- but is temporarily out of service today) shows that nuclear power involves but minimal and insignificant radiation exposure of the public," he said. For example, Eisenbud said, eating in a ear 22 pounds of Hudson River fish caught near the reactor results in a radiation dose equivalent to that received by a resident of Brooklyn (where the sandy terrain emits small traces of radiation) who" visits Manhattan (where larger traces are emitted) for. 30 hours per year. Yale University Professor Daniel Merriman focused his report on the impact of taking cool water from a body of waiter and returning it several degrees warmer.

This is called thermal pollution and is found around many industries that use water for cooling. Merriman studied the Connecticut River, which like the Hudson, has been the site of a big nuclear power plant for nearly decade. The Connecticut also flows into Long. Island Sound, and Merriman suggests that in the next few years after, more plants are both bodies of water will have been heated up to their On the Connecticut Merri uiuauuvc cuiisaiuua uuiu iuu-s 1 i rl a rl TCrlisnn's Tndian Point Plant on the lower Hudson River has been minimal. I The effect on the environment of the heat (thermal pollution) discharged into the Lake, 16 miles north of Ithaca, but construction has been delayed indefinitely while the utility and government agencies study the effect of the plant on the environment).

Most of the scientists agreed that using nuclear fuel to generate electricity is the least ecologically harmful of all other available methods. "Everything, including effluents from all power plants whether they operate with fossil fuels or nuclear energy, contains some radioactive material," said Oak Ridge National Laboratory scientists K. Z. Morgan and E. G.

Strauss at the Aug. 10 through 14 forum. Morgan and Strauss recommended that federal and international radiation limits be tightened. The scientists said that man is exposed to much more radiation through X-rays and medical examinations than from nuclear electricity-generating plants. Also, they said, fallout from atmospheric weapons testing bombards mankind with much more radioactivity than power plants.

So the emission limits set for power plants should take into account the fact that man is exposed to substantial additional amounts of radiation, they' concluded. Writing about Indian Point, Professor Merril Eisenbud of New York University Medical Center said that radioactivity enters the atmosphere from the plant either through accident (a boiler leak there several years ago caused temporary "hot" emissions) or in miniscule amounts released in water used to cool the nuclear core: "Operating experience of the 21 civilian power plants (including Indian Point, which has been operating since 1962 THE DAYS OF' Hudson at Indian Point and into Lake Ontario by Niagara Mohawk's Nine Mile Point Nu-; clear Power Plant and by the Rochester Gas Electric Ginna Plant hasn't been measured, but studies show that in estuaries like the Hud-' son, heat accelerates growth of certain algae and stunts the growth of catfish. That federal radiation limits are such that a plant could emit legal quantities of radioactivity which could, through concentration along the food chain, become harmful to man. (New York State Electric Gas Corp. has been planning to build a nuclear generating station on Cayuga Rocky Names New Press Aide ALBANY (AP) Gov.

Nelson A. Rockefeller announced today the appointment of Gerald F. McLaughlin, a former political writer at the State Capitol, as an assistant press secretary in his Albany office. McLaughlin, an Albany resident, replaces William R. Eckhof of Loudonville, who is joining the governor's election campaign staff as deputy press secretary.

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Hurry, before you leave for vacation. "CRANK, CUSS and COAX" WW IANKAMEMCMO pSfi rUTCWKS Cor. VESTAL PENNSYLVANIA AVE. 722-3367 Goodell Says He Mostly Backs Nixon WASHINGTON (AP) Senator Charles E. Goodell N.

said yesterday that he has supported President Nixon since the start of the present Congress up to July 31 more than has Senator Barry Goldwater He told a news conference that on 123 Senate votes he has supported Mr. Nixon 48 per cent of the time and Gold-water has supported the Pres- ident 37 per cent of the time. "I have been an independent senator and I will be an independent as long as I am in the Senate," Goodell said. Goodell is up for reelection this year and is opposed by Representative Richard L. Ot-tinger, the Democratic candi date, and James Buckley, the Conservative candidate.

He said that he voted to override Nixon's veto of a bill providing education funds', be-cause he believes that fund could be cut out of other mea-' sures. As to whether Republican campaign funds might be cut off for him Goodell said that such speculation was not true. He said that Senator John G. Tower head of the Senate GOP Campaign Committee, has told him that he would receive between $5,000 and $10,000. Asked about reports that some New York upstate Re-'.

publican House members were behind Buckley, Goodell said his relations with the Republican congressmen from the state have been good. "The reports that they are coming out for Buckley and against me are grossly exaggerated," he said. fuKSl EMI 131 -T TV" Y-L-sSi KIL iff) rju BAKE If i CARBURETOR SERVICE LOW PCCI SKOALS! We need your help 0 13 a SORRY! NO WINNER THIS WEEK Next Week 2 Prizes $300, $300 However, we gave two $25-Cash Door Prizes ltd Kt "1AM BtTI" mm. mm mm M9 get with summer's IF IT'S DUALITY YOU'RF LOOKING FOR great On Thursday, August 27, several hundred helium-filled balloons will be released from the Press Building on Vestal Parkway East. Each balloon will contain a postal card with the name of a Press newspaperboy printed on it.

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