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...pilot project was done with Island Creek Coal Co. -- a 15-ton-per-hr. operation in Bayard, W. Va., at the headwaters of the Potomac. Smith and Keller also did some early business with General Public Utilities in western Pennsylvania, until the Three Mile Island nuclear disaster thoroughly distracted GPU's management...
...slavering sadism. Thorny issues are begged, compelling stories avoided. The dark psychology of the death-camp administrator, himself captive in a twisted chain of command, is rarely investigated. Neither is the prisoner's natural impulse to survive at any cost, which gave rise to "the Jewish members of the GPU, the Capos, the thieves, speculators, informers," as Singer describes them in Enemies, a Love Story. Instead, characters are as reductive as in any old-time western. The good guys wear the Star of David; the bad guys wear swastikas. The real victim in these films is dramatic ambiguity...
...badly damaged Unit 2, though, will not operate again for at least 2 1/2 years while GPU continues its cleanup. That task could end up costing more than $1 billion...
...generating plant has become a symbol of the dangers of using atomic fuel to produce electricity. The twin reactors at the Pennsylvania site have remained shut since the disastrous near meltdown of Unit 2. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission, in a 4-to-1 vote, ruled last week that the GPU Nuclear Corp., which runs Three Mile Island, could reopen the undamaged Unit 1, which had no part in the accident...
...accident was a financial and public relations disaster for Metropolitan Edison, the utility that operated Three Mile Island. In 1981 its corporate parent, New Jersey-based General Public Utilities (GPU), set up a new subsidiary, called GPU Nuclear Corp., to clean up the mess left by the accident and reassure the public that T.M.I. Unit 2 is safe. The company is making progress at the first task but has been less successful with the second...