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...THREE MILE ISLAND almost happened again at nine o'clock in the morning on January 25 Just outside of Rochester, New York. a tube ruptured in the steam generator of the Robert E. Ginna nuclear power plant. allowing radioactive water to come into contact with the cooling system. The water vaporized and escaped--still radioactive into the atmosphere. As the plant's technicians belatedly tried to lower the water pressure to reduce the leak, a valve stuck, pressure dropped too rapidly and the water in the reactor began to boil. If a backup valve hadn't opened, a "bubble...
Since Three Mile Island, match of the public furor over the dangers of nuclear power has abated but as the Ginna "failure" shows, the safety problems which that accident dramatically highlighted have not. Critical Mass, a Ralph Nader energy watchdog lobby, counted 3804 mishaps due to equipment failure, design flaws, and human error at the nation's 71 reactors in 1980 In 1981, nuclear power plants were shut down for safety reasons one day out of every eight. And signs for the future are ominous Thirty three nuclear plants now report cracking and corrosion in their steam generator tubes...
...portent of troubles ahead, since steam lines in many plants around the country are also plagued by corrosion. Indeed, by week's end, reactors in New Jersey and Vermont had been shut down because of leaks in their plumbing, and the NRC reported that plans to restart Three Mile Island's Unit No. 1, closed for refueling at the time of the 1979 accident at its sister plant, would be delayed at least six months because of similar leaks there...
...make Egypt a more prosperous nation. Meeting those expectations will be difficult; some fear that people are expecting too much. But there is general agreement that Mubarak has made a remarkable beginning, even if, as a Cairo editor says, "it's like the first step of a thousand-mile journey...
DIED. Malcolm Moos, 65, versatile scholar and political scientist who, as President Dwight Eisenhower's chief speechwriter, helped to coin the expression "militaryindustrial complex" in Ike's farewell address; of an apparent heart attack; at Ten Mile Lake, Minn. A prolific author (Politics, Presidents and Coattails and The Republicans: A History of the Party), Moos served as president of the University of Minnesota during the 1960s...