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