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When a Portland City Club committee did their investigation of the Trojan plant, their conclusion was that the fuel storage pool, covered only with a thin tin roof, was a un-defendable terrorists target, among other awful things, so recommended to close it permanently.   William Heironymus, Superintendent of Naval Shipbuilding, the man who built Admiral Rickover's nuclear fleet says all nuclear energy is "Alchemy" and no amount of money can make it safe. Admiral Rickover, concluding the same, asked the Senate to be put in charge of decommissioning all the navy's nuclear powered ships.   Reagan fired him.   Two years ago, a pineapple sized hole was discovered in the pressure vessel lid at the Davis Besse plant in Ohio.  Corrosion had eaten from the outside all the way through the strong alloy lid down to the 1/2 inch stainless plate at the base of it.   Stainless isn't strong. It was there to preclude corrosion from inside the vessel.   It was bulging when they discovered it.   Radioactivity speeds up corrosion, something no one knew when these plants were built.   All the plants in the U.S. are terrorists targets, corroding away before our very eyes, disaster an eye blink away.   This is insanity.   Jerry Wilson, Chief Petitioner on Measure 6 to close the plant in '92.

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