However, Janine Allis-Smith, from the campaigning group Cumbrians Opposed to a Radioactive Environment, disagreed.

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However, Janine Allis-Smith, a campaigner with Cumbria Opposed to a Radioactive Environment (Core), said that more work would have to be done before the general public, as opposed to workers in the industry, would feel reassured.

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In West Allis, a blue-collar suburb of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, clean-cut college students in pressed white shirts sat with Palm Pilots and a big box of Krispy Kreme doughnuts, monitoring the flow of voters into the polls.

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