Under the Clinton Administration, even the capability of measuring radiation is apparently politically incorrect. The Federal Emergency Management Agency is eliminating their radiological safety program for the measurement of high levels of radiation in case of accident, terrorism, or war. Therefore, hundreds of thousands of working, calibrated radiation meters are now being discarded nationwide as each state terminates its FEMA radiological safety program. Faced, however, with grass-roots civil defense activists who volun- teer to store meters for public redistribution in emergency or to distrib- ute them now to the schools, FEMA is offering to pay the states if they will return the meters to FEMA for destruction rather than allowing the citizens to have them. Information is available from Steve Jones at 1402 South 1000 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84104 or (801) 972-0863.
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Vol. 24, No. 7
Newsletter: Access to Energy Newsletter Archive Volume: Issues Issue/No.: Vol. 24, No. 7 Date: March 01, 1997 12:02 PM Title: Second Class Citizens
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