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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...inspect their reactors for any flaws in design or construction that might be similar to those at Three Mile Island...
...modify the emergency core-cooling systems (which are designed to pour thousands of gallons of cooling water on a runaway reactor and thereby prevent The China Syndrome-type meltdown that was narrowly averted at Three Mile Island...
Three of the plants-in Arkansas, Florida and Ohio-are already shut down for routine maintenance or refueling. So too are Metropolitan Edison's two reactors at Three Mile Island: one because of the March 28 accident, its twin for refueling and maintenance. Thus the NRC's order means an additional loss of only four nuclear plants-California's Rancho Seco and Duke Power's three Oconee reactors in South Carolina-out of 72 nuclear plants licensed to operate across the U.S., including five on the East Coast temporarily shut for earthquake safety studies. All together...
...power grid-would be of "very short duration." Certainly, he said, they would not last into the peak summer season. But Harold Denton, the NRC's reactor regulations chief, was more skeptical. Something of a hero in the nuclear field for his cool troubleshooting at Three Mile Island in the wake of March's accident, he insisted that all B & W pressurized water reactors were susceptible to the kind of failures that occurred in Pennsylvania. Of Lee's optimistic prediction, he said: "Perhaps he's ingenious and will come up with...
...height of the Three Mile Island crisis, dozens of pregnant women and children were evacuated to Hershey, Pa., twelve miles away from the crippled reactor. The move was a precautionary one to protect them against any radioactive fallout. For a while state officials even considered evacuating Hershey...