Word: almosts
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...leaked onto the floor of the containment building. That meant the primary loop, which brings cooling water into direct contact with the radioactive reactor core and keeps its temperature at a safe 600° F., had been affected in some unexplained way. Curry insisted that an emergency was declared almost immediately and the proper state and local authorities promptly notified. State police immediately blocked off the two bridges leading to the 600-acre island, letting through only plant officials...
...Almost as soon as the accident at Three Mile Island occurred, Radiation Physicist Ernest Sternglass was at the scene, Geiger counter in hand, crying disaster to anyone who would listen. He predicted an increase of 5% to 20% in the incidence of leukemia in children of the area within a year. A vehement foe of nuclear power, the University of Pittsburgh scientist exclaimed: "The reaction of the community should be to stand up and scream...
...rays. About half of that radiation comes from the sun and cosmic rays, another 45% from exposure to diagnostic and therapeutic medical equipment, and only about 5% from atomic fallout and such consumer products as microwave ovens and TV sets and production of nuclear power. Radiation sickness is almost certain at exposures of around 50,000 millirems. The Government has set a permissible annual level of radiation exposure for the general public of 500 millirems and for nuclear power plant workers 5,000 millirems. But these standards have been sharply questioned by radiation biologists, physicians and other scientists...
...nuclear power has won only a modest role in the nation's total energy picture. Now, in the shock of the Three Mile Island nightmare, the question arises whether reactors will ever be able-or be allowed-to contribute much more than the 14% of electricity production and almost 4% of total energy consumption that they supply today. "The way I see it, the nuclear power industry does not have a future," says an executive of an atomic plant near Toledo. His gloom is extreme, but the friends and foes of nuclear power agree that the Pennsylvania accident...
...plant built because of legal challenges by opponents. Says Charles Cicchetti, chairman of the Wisconsin public service commission: "It's time to jump off the nuclear bandwagon." Nonetheless, the industry contends that nuclear plants now in operation deliver power at a lower cost than those fueled by almost any other means. The Edison Electric Institute, a utility-company group, estimates that atomic plants produce electricity at a cost of 1.71? per kwh, vs. 1,74? to 2.08? for coal-fired plants and 3.96? to 4,54? for plants burning...