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Dilemma Over
Nuclear Wastes
B
y the year 2000
France will be obliged lo
find graveyards for more
!han 2.8 million cubic feet of
radioactive waste.
According lo the Atomic
Industrial Forum, France
generales a higher
percentage of its electricity
by nuclear power !han any
other country. In 1983 the
figure was 37 percent. Sorne
say it may rise as high as 70
percent by 1990.
Combatting
SexAbuse
T
o comba! !he increasing
incidence of child sex
abuse, programs are being
developed worldwide lo
inform !he public.
One such program has
been developed by Dr.
Beatrice Rasof , assistant
Allergic
tothe
20th
Century?
A
new disease has
emerged in North
America. Doctors can it
"environmental illness" or
"20th-century disease." The
condition produces violen!
reactions to synthetic
materials, common
chemicals, car exhaust and
other by-products of
20th-century technology.
Essentially, the disease is
a malfunction in !he immune
system. Dr. lrvine Korman, a
June
1985
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clinical professor of
psychiatry al Harbor-UCLA
Medica! Center , California.
Dr. Rasof involves
teachers, parents and
children in a multilingual
program that explains how lo
recognize sex abuse and
what lo do about it.
Children are taught
concepts of respect , privacy
and safety in a three-day
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specialist in environmental
medicine, describes the
illness as " the flip side of
AIDS ... these people's
immune systems hyperact,
whereas AIDS patients'
underreact. ·•
Victims become highly
sensitive lo chlorinated tap
water, food additives,
detergents, hair spray,
toothpaste and other
man-made products.
Symptoms include
headaches. fatigue. muscle
pains, depression and
fainting. The victim's body is
unable lo cleanse itself of the
chemical buildup.
Authorities attribute these
program that utilizes puppets
and felt figures to tell stories.
The children then produce
drawings of people they leer
they can trust, if explaining
that someone else has taken
advantage of them.
Drawing is an excellent
medium for children.
"Children," says Dr. Rasof ,
"often express themselves
more effectively through
play, fantasy and art than the
spoken language."
According to Dr. Rasof,
her program now reaches
almos! 10,000 preschool
children through Head Start
agencies and school districts
under the Los Angeles
County Office of
Education. •
environmental allergies to the
rising amount of toxins in air,
water and food. Although the
human body normally adapts
by the end of this decade.
additional nuclear waste
storage sites mus! be
selected immediately.
One potential disposal site
is !he area of Le Plan de
Lom, near the village of
Saint-Jean-de-la-Biaquiere in
southern France. Bu! Mayor
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Jean Brusque is not happy at
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the prospect of having his
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fine wine-producing area
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declared a nuclear dump.
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Said the mayor: ' 'l'm nota
geologist, bu!
1
read that
water is !he No. 1 enemy of
nuclear wastes.
1t
is capable
of contaminating everything
in the case of a leak ... now
what do you find on Le Plan
de Lom? The wells of
Rabieux, which provide
drinking water for the
region. We are perhaps
peasants," said Mayor
Brusque, "but don'! take us
for suckers."
The disposal site
proposed for Le Plan de Lom
would be for moderately
radioactive by-products of
nuclear processing. These
by-products-used filters.
resins and contaminated
clothing-have a radioactive
lile of less !han 30 years. Still
remaining is the lar more
complicated problem of
storing nuclear wastes of
high radioactivity lasting
millions of years. •
to a moderate level of
contaminants , illness results
if individual tolerance levels
are exceeded. •