Word: harrisburgs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...riveting days, the nation-and the world-watched a gas bubble build up in a nuclear reactor at Three Mile Island near Harrisburg, Pa., and threaten to cause a hydrogen gas explosion that would spew radiation into the atmosphere. When the bubble finally disappeared and the danger subsided, deep relief was mingled with grave concern about the nuclear future...
...HARRISBURG, Pa.--Utility stockholders and customers are disputing who will pay the estimated $1 million-a-day cost of replacing electricity generated by the crippled Three Mile Island nuclear energy plant...
...left the endangered area of their own volition. In the countryside near the disabled plant, once complacent families were now both worried and angry. "You hear one thing from the utility," protested Suzanne Machita, as she began packing a suitcase. "Then one thing from the Government, another thing from Harrisburg and something else from civil defense. I don't know what to believe, what to do, so I guess the best thing is to go It's better than doing nothing." She said she had often argued with her husband Harry when he raised questions about living so close...
Afer preliminary tests were conductid on Unit 2 last year, Harrisburg area opponents went to court to try to prevent it from being put into full operation. They lost again, and Unit 2 was placed on line last Dec. 30. It had been operating at full capacity for only about five weeks when the accident happened...
That fear is already evident. In Boston last week, after listening to a group of antinuclear physicians proclaim the hazards of radiation in a series of papers, a young woman whose husband had to go to Harrisburg on business stood up and addressed the panel. Said she: "I don't want him to go, but he says it's his job. We're having a big fight." Would he be safe? she asked the physicians. None could give her a firm answer...