Tist's Declaration, Some of Our Objec Forward with a Rapidly Expanding Nuclear Power Plant Construction Program
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From the Declaration presented to Congress and the President of the United States on the 30th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and signed by more than 2,000 biologists, chemists, engineers Since the proclamation of the scien and other scientists. " . the country must recognize that it now appears imprudent to move tist's declaration, some of our objec forward with a rapidly expanding nuclear power plant construction program. The risks of doing so are altogether too greal We, therefore, tives have been achieved. urge a drastic reduction in new nuclear power plant construction starts before major progress is achieved in the required research and in resolving present controversies about safety, waste disposal, and plutonium safeguards. For similar reasons, we urge the nation to suspend its program Since 197 5, plans for 60 reactors have of exporting nuclear plants to other countries pending resolution of the national security questions associated with the use by these countries of been cancelled, one-quarter of the total the by-product plutonium from United States nuclear reactors." then planned. August 6, 1975 A few of the signers of the declaration•: BRUCE M. ALBERTS - Professor of Biochemical Scienoes, Princeton University; PAUL KIRKPATRICK- Professor of Pbysics Emeritus, Stanford University; HANNES AIFVEN - ProCessor of Physics, University of California at San Diego; Nobel Laureate; GEORGE B. KISTIAKOWSKY- Professor of Chemistry Emeritus, Harvard University; Head of the Explosives Division of the Manhattan Project; Former Vico-President of the National Academy CHRISTIAN B. ANFINSEN- Chief, Laboralory for Chemical Biology, United States National of Scienoes; Science Advisor to President Eisenbower; Institutes of Health; Nobel Laureate; VERA KISTIAKOWSKY- Professor of Physics, M.I.T.; DAVID BALTIMORE - American Canoer Society Professor of Microbiology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; WILLIAM N. UPSCOMB- Abbott and James LaWRnoe Professor of Chemistry, Harvard University; CARLOS G. BElL, 1R- Celanese Professor of Civil Engineering, University of North Carolina at Charlotte; SALVATORE LURIA- Professor of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Nobel Laureate; HARRIET BERNHEIMER, Ph.D.- State University of New York, Downstate Medical Center; BORIS MAGASANIK- Professor and Chairman of the Biology Department, Massachusetts NINA BYERS- Professor of Physics, U.C.L.A.; Institute of Technology; EARL CALLEN- Professor of Physics, American University; EDWIN E. MOISE - Distinguished Professor of Mathematics, Queens College, City University of New York; RICHARD L. CASPERSON -Associate Scientist, Tbennal Reactor Safety Division, Idaho National Engineering Laboralay (formerly known as Atanic Energy Commission National Reactor PHILIP MORSE - Professor of Physics Emeritus, Massachusetts Inatitute of T ecbnology; Past Testing Site); President of the American Physical Society; SAUL COHEN - Professor and Head of Department of Chemistry, Brandeis University; STANLEY J. PICKART- Professor and Chairman of the Physics Department, University of Rhode Island; JAMES BRYANT CONANT- President Emeritus of Harvard University; Chairman, National Defense Research Commi!Ue during World War U; Member of Manhattan Project Steering ROBERT 0 . POHL- Professor of Physics, Cornell University; CommiU..e; United States High Commissioner in Germany; General Advisory Commiu..e of the AEC; "Atomic Pioneer's Award" from President Nixon, among other bonors; JULIAN SCHWINGER- Professor of Physics, University of California at Los Angeles; Nobel Laureate; BRUNO COPPI- Professor of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; IRVING J. SELIKOFF- Director, Environmental Scienoes Laboratory, Mount Sinai School of CARL F. CORI- Visiting Professor of Biological Chemistry, Harvard Medical Schoo~ Nobel Medicine of the City University of New York; Laureat.:; ROBERT L. SINSHEIMER- Chairman of the Biological Division, California Institute of MURRAY EDEN- Professor of Electrical Engineerin& Massachusetts Inatitute of Technology; Technology; JOHN T. EDSAlL- Professor of Biochemistry Emeritus, Harvard University; Member, National JEROME STEFFENS- Chairperson, Technology and Society Division, American Society of Academy of Sciences; President, VI International Coogress of Biochemistry; Mechanical Engineers; ANNE EHRliCH - Senior Resident Associate of Biology, Stanford University; WALTER H. STOCKMAYER - Professor of Chemistry, Dartmouth College; PAUL EHRliCH - Professor of Biology, Stanford University; ALBERT SZENT-GYORGYI - Research Biologist, Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory; Nobel Laureate; HERMAN N. EISEN- Professor 6f Immunology, Center for Cancer Research, Massachusetts Inatitute of Technology; HAROLD C. UREY- Professor of Chemistry Emeritus, University of California at San Diego; Manhattan Project; Nobel Laureate; JAMES A FAY- Professor of Mechanical Engineerin& Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Chairman, Massachusetts Port Authority; GEORGE WALD - Professor of Biology, Harvard Univer.;ity; Nobel Laureate; MARION FAY- President Emerita, The Medical College of Pennsylvania; JAMES D. WATSON- Professor of Biology, Harvard University; Dilector of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory; Nobel Laureate; C.D. HAAGENSEN, M.D. - Professor Emeritus of Clinical Surgery, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University; RALPH WEYMOUTH- Vice Admiral (Ret), United States Navy, Former Director of Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Office of the Chief of Naval Operations; A CARL HELMHOLZ- Professor of Physics, University of California at Berkeley; ARTHUR S. WIGHTMAN- Professor of Mathematical Physics, Princeton University; EDWIN C. KEMBLE - Professor of Physics Emeritus> Harvard University; HULEN B. WILLIAMS - Professor of Chemistry and Dean of the College of Chemistry and HENRY W. KENDAlL- Professor of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Physics. Louisiana State University; KATE KIRBY-DOCKEN, Ph.D.- Physicist, Harvard Smithsonian Observatory; NORMAN D. ZINDER- Professor of Molecular Genetics, Rockefeller University. *Organizational affiliation is for identification only. This Declaration was prepared August 1975 under the auspices of The Union Of Concerned Scientists .