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OSU president
raps measure
CORVALLIS (AP) — Oregon
State University Pres. Robert
MacVicar has lent his name to a
direct-mail campaign against a
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ballot measure to tighten state
standards for disposal of low
level radioactive waste.
MacVicar’s letter says that as
a scientist and educator, he’s
urging defeat of Measure 9 as
unnecessary regulation and
harassment of a company the
measure’s sponsors “don’t hap
pen to like.”
Teledyne Wah Chang Albany
has said the measure would re
quire it to spend up to $25
million to move 60,000 cubic
yards of sludge from its
Millersburg metals manufactur
ing plant site to an out-of-state
site.
Jim Denham, a spokesman for
the company, said Wah Chang
approached Mac Vicar to ask for
his help in the campaign
against the measure, “and he
was happy to do that.”
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About 800.000 copies of the
letter have been mailed to
households around the state.
Denham said.
In his letter, MacVicar said
people are constantly exposed
to natural radiation and that the
Wah Chang sludge is no more
radioactive than common
building materials and a table
salt substitute.
The Wah Chang sludge has
been thoroughly tested and. in a
state Health Division study, was
found to pose no significant
health risk, MacVicar’s letter
said.
He said Oregon already has
‘‘very tough" standards for the
disposal of low-level radioac
tive waste.
Anti-nuclear activist Lloyd
Marbet, principal supporter of
the measure, has acknowledged
that the measure woujd force
Wah Chang to- move the waste
away . from . the Willamette
River.'
But Marbet says .the restric
tions also are aimed at any'new.,
uranium milling operations that.
might locate in‘Oregon..
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