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REGULATION. Experts from the NRC should be on duty in the control room of every reactor round the clock, armed with full authority to take over at the first sign of trouble, order a shut down if that seems necessary, direct all emergency procedures for closing the plant-and damn what it may cost. At present, this responsibility is borne largely by utility-company employees, who, with the best will in the world, cannot avoid thinking about the costs to the company. In addition, computers at all U.S. nuclear plants should be wired in to a central NRC monitoring station...
...Hershey Park, twelve miles from Three Mile Island, where an evacuation center was set up in a sports arena built by the chocolate company. As children played ring-around-a-rosy on the arena floor, Charles Noon said angrily about the nuclear plant: "They ought to shut that damn thing down." He had fled his home in Middletown with his wife and two children. "We came here as soon as we heard the warning on the radio," he said. "We didn't want to take any chances...
Vellucci, the council's swing vote--who once filed a motion to institute vacancy decontrol--told a jeering crowd at the council hearing, "You're damn right I'm supporting rent control...If it's one thing I've got a reputation for, it's guts...
...prices would probably cut consumption, but also would certainly increase inflation. "Good energy policy is not good economic policy," summed up White House Aide Hamilton Jordan. Added another adviser: "We've got to do what is in the best interests of the country-but it's damn hard to see how anything we do will be in the best interests of Jimmy Carter...
...council passed the ordinance, which also calls for attendants at sites with pinball machines and restricts the hours school children may use the machines, on a 7-1 vote. "If I had my way, I'd ban the damn things altogether--they serve no useful purpose," Cambridge Mayor Thomas W. Danehy told the council, councilors described pinball arcades as "public nuisances" and said that school children were skipping school to play pinball...