Word: harrisburgs
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...concrete cooling towers looming eerily in the dusk on this week's cover belong to the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant complex outside Harrisburg, Pa., site of the most serious accident in the relatively brief history of nuclear power. TIME dispatched three correspondents and a staff photographer to the stricken area, and their reports and pictures, along with files from our bureaus across the nation, were woven by Senior Writer Ed Magnuson into a story that not only reconstructs the accident in detail, but also assesses its consequences for the future of nuclear power and for U.S. energy...
Twenty-five hundred demonstrators massed on Boston Common Sunday afternoon at a Clamshell Alliance-sponsored rally. The turnout for the protest--planned only two days before--showed the power of the Harrisburg incident, Diane Keefe, a Clamshell organizer, told the crowd...
Scholars lined up on both sides of the nuclear debate. George Wald, Higgins Professor of Biology Emeritus, told crowds at Sunday's rally that the Harrisburg plant had released harmful radiation. "There is no threshold; any radiation is dangerous," Wald said...
State Rep. Richard Roche, who heralded the Harrisburg accident as the beginning of a "credibility meltdown" for the nuclear industry, calling for a moratorium on new nuclear construction...
...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...