Word: accidental
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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More than a month after the nation's worst nuclear accident, at Pennsylvania's Three Mile Island Unit 2 reactor, the lessons and the consequences continued to be explored. Items:
The Senate committee, which called for a $400,000 study of the accident at the Three Mile Island nuclear facility in Pennsylvania, also approved a proposal that requires the NRC to draft legislation giving the government sole authority to operate a reactor during an emergency.
Clearly pleased by NRC's compromise decision, Lee did something of an about-face. At week's end, he predicted that the "outages"-jargon for when a generator is out of the power grid-would be of "very short duration." Certainly, he said, they would not last into...
DIED. Marvella Bayh, 46, vivacious blond wife of Democratic Senator Birch Bayh of Indiana and ardent fund raiser for the American Cancer after her own bout with the disease began in 1971; of cancer; in Bethesda, Md. An Oklahoma beauty queen, Marvella Hern met her husband when she defeated him...
When technical hiccups occur, the whole global system often begins to tremble and twitch. Example: just as U.S. refinery capacity was being strained by the demand for gasoline, Exxon was hit in late March by a freak fire at its Bayway Refinery in Linden, N.J. The accident has knocked out...