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...region just southeast of Harrisburg, the Pennsylvania capital, looks no different than it did a year ago. The four huge cooling towers that mark the location of Metropolitan Edison's Three Mile Island nuclear plant still loom 372 ft. above the surface of the Susquehanna and catch the eye of every motorist topping the hill at Swatara and heading south on Route 283. The fields surrounding the neat farmhouses on either side of the road are as brown as they always are in March and covered with a stubble that suggests a two-day growth of beard. Middletown...
...thing that bothered us more than anything else was that there were advance indications that this accident could happen, and they were ignored." Indeed a similar event began in 1977 in Toledo Edison's Davis-Besse 1 plant, and operators mistakenly cut off the operation of automatic emergency cooling pumps, just as they did at T.M.I. But at Davis-Besse the mistake was detected in time, and the reactor was quickly brought back to normal...
...additional expert to each shift to serve as technical adviser or supernuke, in operator lingo. The adviser is supposed to be kept free of all routine duties so that he can monitor safety indicators and help operators interpret plant conditions. Says Jim Toscas, the nuclear training supervisor for Commonwealth Edison in Illinois: "The objective is for the adviser to be so well rounded he can't be snowed by anybody in the plant...
Three years ago, when Land introduced Polavision to an amazed stockholders' meeting, Polaroid had been one of the great success stories of corporate America. Founder and boss for 43 years, Harvard Dropout Edwin Land is an inventive genius ranking not far behind Thomas Edison. He personally holds 524 U.S. patents. Starting with the development of Polaroid filters to stop the harsh reflection of automobile headlights, Land moved on to nonglare Polaroid sunglasses and World War II antiaircraft goggles...
...initial success of the Israeli program has awakened enthusiasm for solar ponds in the U.S. Under an agreement with Israel, a group led by Southern California Edison is planning a five-megawatt demonstration facility at the Salton Sea, in Southern California's Imperial Valley. Under Government funding, scientists will investigate other potential U.S. solar pond sites, including San Francisco Bay and Utah's Great Salt Lake. Though their estimate may be somewhat optimistic, solar pond boosters figure that the new technology could eventually meet as much as 12% of U.S. energy needs and even more in Third World...