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Dates: during 1970-1979
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John A. Klima Mercer Island, Wash...
There are ominous rumblings that the effects of the gas shortage may get much more troublesome. Gas lines have started to appear in Rhode Island, though they are short (only 15 cars or so) by California standards. Says Peter Montaquila, who owns an Arco station in Providence: "I'm getting lines between 7:30 a.m. and 10 a.m. A lot of the cars are driven by housewives gassing up for their husbands. Topping off has started; we're selling $2 and $3 amounts." Some Rhode Island dealers are apprehensively distributing bumper stickers (pompously worded PRIDE, HONESTY AND SERVICE...
...result of secrecy compounded by confusion and some startling ignorance was dramatized by the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant crisis. While the event made plain that Government and corporate experts had not quite leveled with the public about the hazards of nuclear power, it also proved, frighteningly enough, that the experts sometimes did not tell the whole story simply because they did not know it. Joseph M. Hendrie, chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, said of himself and other officials, as they tried to cope with an incipient meltdown: "We are operating . . . like a couple of blind men staggering...
More than a month after the nation's worst nuclear accident, at Pennsylvania's Three Mile Island Unit 2 reactor, the lessons and the consequences continued to be explored. Items...
...Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare Joseph A. Califano Jr. backed away from his original estimate that the Harrisburg nightmare would cause no cancer deaths among the 2 million people living within a 50-mile radius of Three Mile Island. Appearing before Ohio Senator John Glenn's nuclear proliferation and energy subcommittee, Califano predicted at least one death and acknowledged that some scientific investigators were estimating up to ten deaths. The revision was necessary because it turns out that the initial levels of radiation released in the accident were higher than thought at the time...