Ste feorzo = 5 wlistons or in other mishaps. None crupted in nuclear oxplosions but the for nen De itPalomares, Spain, last January roquired a vast and frantic search and cleirus operation to recover the bomb that Poli in the soa and to remove or plow under coil contaminated with radtoactivo comb ingredients. Some 1,750 tonsa of topsoil and tomate vines wero scraped from the "hottest" farm field and shippod in steol drums +5 an atomic "burial cround" in NorthCarolinas) oo HH t ig clear then, that ponding the utopia of complete and air-tieht nuclear disammcnent, wa must learn to Uvo with live bembs and other atomic riska, including umicrground tcsting, with its occasional "venting" of radioactive clouds. Recontly | wna Federal Water Controi Administration issued a report on anothor hazard, hugo��� millo in Colorado, Utah, Arizona, and New Mexico. The Control Administration has ms tron from polluting the waters of the Colorado River and its tributaries with radioactivity that could last for centunes. ; aaa A Siiinad seated, Socommonded diking the piles or covering them with oarth and vegetation, to prevent whe. Bees. sbendoncd piles of highly radioactive tallings ‘at seven closed uranium processing a Even peace=-timo nuclear operations roquire close monitoring y though the growin | numbor of power reactors have so far been models of tidiness and are, in fact, discharging less radioactavity into the air than conventional plants fuelod by coal, whien contains natural radioactivity. | But mo matter how many safeguards we drape around our atomic sorvants,—so— long cg men and machines are fallible, we can expect occasional puffs of lively and potentially lethal atoms to escapo. Some may get into the air we breathe, the wate: and milk we drink, the food we eats | Since much of the radioactive stuff will remain dangerous for tens and even hundseds or thousands of years, those charged with safeguarding tho people! s health © muct master dotection and measuring techniques far