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...watershed event for both Stoler and the nuclear industry was the potentially disastrous March 1979 accident at the Three Mile Island plant in Pennsylvania. Stoler, who has reported or written most of TIME'S stories on nuclear power in recent years, was one of the first correspondents to reach the scene. Talking to plant officials and technicians, he calculated that the reactor had come within 45 minutes of a real meltdown. Though he was unable at that time to get independent verification, a commission of inquiry later confirmed that he had been frighteningly right. "I had been a nuclear...
Stoler's nuclear expertise was augmented last week by reports from several TIME correspondents. Los Angeles' Joseph Kane, who covered the West Coast's problems, also was on hand five years ago for the Three Mile Island accident, interviewing frightened citizens living in the shadow of the cooling towers. Barbara Dolan talked with officials at several Southern utility companies who remain staunchly pro-nuclear despite current problems. Chicago's J. Madeleine Nash interviewed officials of newly canceled Midwestern nuclear plants. Jay Branegan, TIME'S Washington-based specialist on energy and the environment, interviewed Energy Department...
...half of some herds could die. Colorado, with 550,000 deer and 130,000 elk, may spend $1.6 million for emergency feeding. One morning last week near Kremmling, Colo., Gerrans and his crew took their Sno-Cat, a huge cart with tanklike treads, rumbling out for the daily 14-mile feeding sortie. The men scattered high-protein biscuits by the handful across the snow. Soon a pair of mule deer appeared, then five...
...returned to form, winning the World Cup cross-country competition. But Koch has remained intense and intensely private as he prepares for one of the most demanding and certainly the longest-distance event in either the Winter or Summer Games, the 50-km (31-mile) cross-country race. He fears Russians less than microbes. Says he: "You spend years preparing for a specific event and then sit next to someone who's coughing. It could be all over...
...Government can ignore the objections of affected states at the time the Interior Department offers oil-or gas-drilling leases on the continental shelf, the sloping underwater strip of land at a continent's edge. The Federal Government has traditionally controlled all drilling on the shelf beyond three miles, except off Texas and Florida, which maintain a ten-mile jurisdiction.-The decision, written by Associate Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, involves 29 tracts, totaling 165,000 acres, in the Santa Maria basin off the California coast between Morro Bay and Point Conception, northwest of Santa Barbara. Geologists have...