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...dead of night, the hulks of four 372-ft. cooling towers and two high domed nuclear reactor container buildings were scarcely discernible above the gentle waters of the Susquehanna River, eleven miles southeast of Harrisburg, Pa. Inside the brightly lit control room of Metropolitan Edison's Unit 2, technicians on the lobster shift one night last week faced a tranquil, even boring watch. Suddenly, at 4 a.m., alarm lights blinked red on their instrument panels. A siren whooped a warning. In the understated jargon of the nuclear power industry, an "event" had occurred. In plain English, it was the beginning...
Whatever the final report, months from now, on what went wrong and how at Three Mile Island, the way in which federal and plant officials seemed to handle the breakdown will not help the industry's image. The trouble was dismissed at first by Jack Herbein, Metropolitan Edison's vice president for power generation, in a memorable engineer's euphemism, as merely "a normal aberration." Reassuring statements spewed from the plant's press spokesmen, sounding as if they were taken right out of the script for the film The China Syndrome, a thriller that depicts nuclear plant officials as placing...
...Harrisburg has imposed a de facto moratorium on new nuclear construction," Roche told students Wednesday. He added, though, that "Boston Edison hasn't heard that yet--we have to keep fighting...
George Troffer, an official with Metropolitan Edison, the plant's operator, said yesterday the company has halted the radioactive gas emissions at the site...
Later in the meeting, after residents had been assured of the immediate assingment of extra plaincloths policemen to the area, representatives of Boston Edison promised to install extra lights around Commonwealth Avenue, where the majority of the attacks to place. Special workshops were arranged to teach the area's women self-defense techniques, and police whistles were furnished...