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...American nuclear power plants in case of another emergency. Last week the NRC showed by two tough decisions that it really takes its watchdog role seriously. In a unanimous ruling, the five-member agency voted to shut down by June 9 two troubled reactors that serve metropolitan New York City unless local authorities quickly agree on acceptable evacuation procedures. In a separate action, the agency levied its largest fine ever for a nuclear plant safety violation: $850,000 against New Jersey's Public Service Electric...
...happens, the state-owned 965-megawatt Indian Point No. 3 plant has been out of action for more than a year because of leaks and corroding pipes. During that time, there has been no noticeable effect on the cost or delivery of electricity in the most populous U.S. metropolitan area...
...nuclear facility near Harrisburg, Pa. The plant's other reactor had broken down on March 28, 1979; neither has been operating since. Leaders of People Against Nuclear Energy (PANE), the citizens group that challenged the startup, were disappointed but vowed to continue their fight. With NRC approval, however, Metropolitan Edison Co., which operates the plant, hopes to reopen the unharmed reactor in July...
...Metropolitan, a retrospective of Constable's Arcadia...
Constable has always had an American following too, but the exhibition of 64 of his paintings and oil sketches that went on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City last week is the first such "retrospective" in the U.S. for 30 years. It is, necessarily, a modest affair compared with the immense Constable show at the Tate Gallery in 1976, which was the kind of exhibition that defines the image of an artist for a generation. Many favorites are not here, starting with The Hay Wain, the most reproduced landscape in English painting-a sort...