Word: harrisburgs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...HARRISBURG, Pa.--Engineers at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant substantially shrank the potentially explosive gas bubble in the plant's reactor yesterday. The bubble, once as large as 1800 cubic feet, was reportedly reduced to 50 cubic feet...
Denton said, however, he believes conditions at the Three Mile Island have improved enough that an evacuation is unwarranted. Unofficial sources in Harrisburg said yesterday there are no definite evacuation plans in the foreseeable future...
...seven plants were designed by Babcock and Wilson, the firm which designed the Harrisburg reactor...
Robert Case, a professor at Northeastern University and a member of the Mobilization for Survival, told the crowd that "we have all learned a lesson from Harrisburg.... We've learned from this accident that Hiroshima is in our neighborhood." Case called the Three Mile Island nuclear accident "the greatest domestic problem of the decade...
...spokesmen for the Union of Concerned Scientists said his group was calling for an evacuation of the area surrounding the leaking Harrisburg reactor. "Some of that radioactivity may end up here, and if it does there are problems: 40 million people live between here and Harrisburg, and New York City is only 115 miles away," he said...