European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 15, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Some proposed new caverns Are stirring controversy by Molly in tvs York times already famous for its spectacularly Beautiful Limestone is about to become known for a few More holes in the Twenty seven Miles East of the Smalt City of persons in Southeastern new the Federal gov emment is planning a nuclear waste storage the idea is to put nuclear waste in some form o contain As yet and Bury half mite Down n Salt the government Calls it a waste isolation Pilot and those opposed to the project Call it a nuclear the mayor and much of the towns establishment favor i the plan and a few citizens Are vehemently opposed to lout the majority do not seem to have Strong feelings i about i guess till be Good for the town if it Doest kill i us the society writer far the Carlsbad current Argia beneath the azure skies of the state that Calls itself the land of the debate Over the facility is i picking up even becoming a trifle environmental groups Are speaking politicians Are surr Fig and a government sponsored Public relations f program to soothe Peoples fears is in full Why not retire in carb Hadt Bert climate fee proclaims a a Aoam pot up by the chamber of Commerce on the Edge and sure while the rest the country was Var i afflicted with and the Sun we brightly on Carlsbad out of a  it Yucca plants those things that look like plot tops with Sticks growing out of Are fee Only in the Sere the towns major Potash is caught i the of Loridon imports and the hard placet according mayor Walter t Potash mines produce As much approximately j employees As in did i jew with i Borax pulled out and went to Leav empty buildings in the situation is not Bleak but Duvet Potash has just announced hat it to Lay off 250 workers by next f is some Oil and Gas exploration activity in the a and Small Gas Field now Beta developed u mayor once a Gas Field is developed it does not be Many people to run by the nuclear Faril r would provide jobs for 19 to 700 persons during its and Lon term employment for so to 350 its estimated Cost is nuclear and Man specifically fee Vej what to with u not topic that no one really knows what to do Wuh the propos have included everything ram dropping it into the to shooting h into the problem with u is that remains Todd for anywhere Tram a thousand to half it is hot and it bums and it i genetic defects and one thing Sun is thai it w not Good for the history of the of government and private Kartchner oppose burial of nuclear in Salt beneath new Mexico Enterprise Ca Deal with nuclear waste is not entirely reas grand new solutions Are periodically based on extrapolations ram premises and buttressed with computer studio at Accident but no one plans accidents As the saying they will As of the most advanced theory on How to Deal with nuclear waste hotels that Salt Beds like a Rood one thing nearly everyone agrees in is that nuclear waste should not be Ted near water it hat a remarkable ability to spread through the ground tables and into drinking where there is Salt Here la no water the thinking stash the nuclear waste in but Peter Monta who is head of Public interest research group called the Southwest research and information Center in we dont know what fee rawer is right but we do know that Ait will move if it ii and nuclear waste will nuke it Salt a strange its supposed to be like Bat when you gel it above 00 it becomes Duc it mingles easily with radioactive and we dont know Bow far it will move or in which Southwest research and information is supported by foundation and it has a staff scientist and three in Southeastern new when the pro of the nuclear storage facility talk about its oppo mayor Gerrels supports february 1978 they Are Apt in say i hear there those in Carlsbad opposed to the project avoid the environmentalist Label like Kim no Radical in not an said Ito Anno a it Vearold housewife who aha Heads the Carlsbad no dear waste tie consisting o about 35 persons who May a Ullie lonely in Carlsbad these is trying to get in formation about the facility and its potential dangers to the its me Befi believe that they have broader support in Carlsbad than their numbers would but that people Are afraid to speak establish Merit for Kartchner band of one member of the group is said to have had his Job threatened if his wife did not shut who has Little formal has spent year studying the nuclear waste Shu sneaks of it with an intensity that barely disguises her 1 just consider that we Are making this fight for our Tor All of and that we have the right to dts ourselves and a say one thing this Light has done for me in my own Ufa that i have lost my Awe of people Tike senators and Scien in not saying that in and of course i dont Haw their but know now that they dont have any to have Complete authority Over my mayor Gervelis i have always taken the Posi since the inception of the that there is Noth ing the matter with us concept of a Plant for storing retrievable nuclear waste in the Salt Beds ii there is no harm to the environment and the the Loyear lil who in comp Hini his third added when the Federal people came into they were completely there was no attempt whatsoever hiding or disregarding anything of a critical they Tell us the bad with the Good the emphasis on the governments Candor u in response to charges that the Feder bureaucrats have shown had the appearance of bad Faith has been it Uttmi Loibl by the bet i the waste facility keeps when the project was initially was la be a trial holding facility for Tow and predium level radioactive military since Tite Energy department has decided that it warts the opt n on storing High level waste there As in an experimental portion of the Pilot Plant has been planned in which commercial nuclear waste would be the chief difference Between military and commercial radioactive waste is that the military waste is More Dif the government now has Between 75 and 80 million Gallons of High level radioactive waste in temporary Star age opponents of the facility an convinced not Only will All of he nations military waste be stored the but also its commercial new mexicans outside Carlsbad Are also becoming concerned about the waste Sieve photographer from Santa said we Are already giving our water away to other and we pollute or air so they can run their hair dryers in los Why should we be the nuclear dump for the whole country the stripes Page 13