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<br /> .AS' Monday, May la, LS/a% 'LnetiouwwuAUVeruxl' • i
<br /> Irradiation: County ~ ~ ~ : Rath;
<br /> Fruitr~
<br /> - °3mmariatlininir~j '
<br /> ` to decide. on funding "radi cCiYk)31e nt2ininga ' Ii FROM PAGE ONI
<br /> "i', r , kt., ds 18 long) for about
<br /> -r dthenremovedafterthe ground.pool of
<br /> ments~kl~ekiMOa deep and 12 fee
<br /> afWatet ~ c water absorbs all
<br /> FiFiOM PAGE ONE «~t 18.f0~bht0,,{IIIt,B ;said. Lyle...
<br /> ,Wong
<br /> t ~ ~ ~ ~ state Departmet
<br /> afi test-marketed in the Mid- ~~re'sDivision,of:
<br /> ~el;t with notices that it had source Of cobalt-60 In ~R.gp which actively su7
<br /> een irradiated, and it sold well, ' ' "+°"fit diator
<br /> i0orlx A concrete' rooi
<br /> said Lyle Wong, head of the one of the most eels: - . ' ':feet thick would'
<br /> state Department of Agricul- r, ~s'
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<br /> - lure's Plant Industry Division. ° 'above the .pool. ]
<br /> $ig Island opponents wonder.' IIIICB~~ 8Ct1Y@. pIBCeS would be rolled i
<br /> ~o a have Joined the National , ~ ~ .the-concrete dob
<br /> $il~cott Against Irradiated On Eartb: 2 the radioactive pi
<br /> Food, which they say is affect- out of the pool foi
<br /> 1ng sales of irradiated products ;iL utes. The radios
<br /> in key markets. -DR. MARKCOHEN would then be
<br /> " Peowralclas ~ into the water be
<br /> They see this as some kind
<br /> ,Of panacea, so they can export opened.
<br /> crops :hat they cannot export Cobalt-60 is fon
<br /> ,,,:a a pormal cobalt-59
<br /> now," said Kathy Dorn, a leader The county's Hopkins said + j•eactor until thr
<br /> in Irradiation Free Food Ha- that whatever engineering is ; takes on an addil
<br /> waii. "But that's full of holes: required will be used to ensure
<br /> :Irradiation can soften the fruits the irradiator is safe. "The facil- ~Phe unstable cob:
<br /> "''and makes them more suscepti- it would have to be built to ` " 'electron and gan
<br /> ble to bruising." Dorn actively withstand the greatest eazth- and degrades int
<br /> opposed the' iVaihee-era irradia- uake that could ha pen," she five nickel.
<br /> ` •'~ion proposal. said. p Some feaz that 1
<br /> .Brian Paxton of Manelo Or- Cohen is not convinced. make things radio
<br /> "chazds, a tropical fruit grower, "It is folly to put a source of ~ n't, any more than
<br /> • said maintaining quality is just a cobalt-60 in one of the most t active, or lying p
<br /> question of determining the seismically active places on { Lwver6serprappia, a rbin Ultr Vi
<br /> ,best irradiation dosage. He Earth," he said. i ~ 8 '
<br /> looks forward to using irradia- Food and Water Inc., a na- ~ r "r+4'-~
<br /> .lion to treat exotic fruits `such tional group, voiced feazs that r1
<br /> a a~;ratnbatan, lychee, Tongan (an i,an' irtadiator on the Big Islands ~ ~ ~ ' ~ ~
<br /> Asiatic friut`i:eseiitliling a'small 'could leuif~"tii'vtliei£'?bbristritcUbrY''
<br /> `m lychee) mangosteen (an East
<br /> "Indian fruit somewhat like an across the nation. The only
<br /> commercial irradiator in the ~
<br /> orange) and durian (a spiny ~j~~ °
<br /> United States, in Florida, is ~
<br /> -East Indian fruit). ~~~~3--
<br /> "Irradiation is a treatment operating far below capacity •s ~s y~'
<br /> and reportedly losing money. « r
<br /> that's going to allow us to "We don't want food irradia-
<br /> ...:...develop export markets, but we lion to get a foothold .any-
<br /> are working on treatments that where," said Dorn..
<br /> i i ,may be safer," Paxton said.
<br /> ! Margarita Hopkins, economic
<br /> deg ~:~pment specialist with , r , ? ~
<br /> Hawai4 County, said Big Island w _ _ _ _ _ _
<br /> y A~~''774~~ F N Y
<br /> residents have made it clear q ~S ~ Y~ "r~UIYIMER $
<br /> 'they don't want a spaceport and kl d i r SCHOOL ~ I
<br /> th2y don't want extensive ~ s ly , d f t, ~ ,
<br /> v,;
<br /> ' resort development, so agricul n~ d i)"
<br /> ture is the remaining practical f . rt., ~ e' , GIRL'S MODELING AND SELF IMP
<br /> - option. "Our Former sugar ~d ~ n.;? _ ~ rig • MAKE UP • HAIR AND NAIL CARE • Rl
<br /> :workers wa?~. i jobs in agricul id ! ~ TECHNIQUES • SOCIAL GRACES , : • Ph
<br /> * ~ • WARDROBE • POISE AND N
<br /> r, tore," Hopkins said, 8 ~ ` ~ ~ i ~ ) PLANNING CONFID~AICE' • AC
<br /> The Hawaiian sovereignty ~tb T " ; Fg{I GIROS 7 11; 12-17
<br /> ;group Ka Lahui has opposed r ~ r Q9« ~ Christine Rountree ;;.',`..'GALL ~~JJ' +22T~- FOR.INFt
<br /> irradition since it was first pro- i " M ti p » c~, SY: Patricks .School taal KaPlolani atyrl; sous ~20~ HonoWW
<br /> „Posed in 1987. a I d t .w I
<br /> Hawaii should be nuclear a~ ! t4 ~ d` ~ ~ , '
<br /> it b a ui t
<br /> free," said Donnalyn Napua ~ , w ~
<br /> * Johns, Ka Lahui's Hilo distract ~ ~ ~ 8 ~ t°s;a J '
<br /> po`o (head). "Man is not perfect ti (I ~I F `I ~
<br /> T and machine is nct per€ect, and «`I~r ~ ' ~ Xc '
<br /> an accident of this nature is not ~
<br /> an accident you can clean up ` 'rtou118d ~~~j'" `~,~e~d ~ ~ `
<br /> with a dustpan and broom." Property. ~ '
<br /> Dr. Mark Cohen, a Hilo pedla- C set I L
<br /> trtcian, said he questions the tr ~ , ~ ~ ~rx ' , . 3
<br /> safety of putting a nuclear facil ~ r a~K ~ i " t•
<br /> q 'am'ity on an island in the most ~ R~ ~e._,,... _
<br /> IP - `earthquake-prone zone in the t ,tn „
<br /> ,nation. He also is concerned F, Q '
<br /> about mechanical and humanr.i . ~ ,Y
<br /> error; *s a mistake with an Irra-
<br /> Fsi~adtor c~~uld easily be fatal, he EVICTIONS ~ I~ ~ II
<br /> i "You have 2 million times the & REAL ESTATE LAW/
<br /> radioactivity of a chest X-ray. CO-OWNER DISPUTES
<br /> You can't hear it, you can't feel - ~ LOW FLAT FEES ®
<br /> it, you can't see it and it can kill DDLD Ld BERGE & ADEN s
<br /> you. Why take the risk?" ATTORNEYS AT LAW PH. 537-8686
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