Word: mishap
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Repeal of this law would signal business's willingness to assume full financial consequences for a mishap, and so would enable it to "put its money where its mouth is." It would also be a sign that the industry is ready to make it on its own without this federally subsidized insurance...
Although by now the planning and mechanics of dinners have become almost rote, they have not been without an occasional mishap. Once, when the controversial sociobiologist E.O. Wilson came for an evening, the chef forgot to show up, and the whole party had to move to a nearby Indian restaurant for the meal. One honored guest, who was too drunk to get to Mitchell's house on his own, finished off a bottle of sherry before dinner and then asked for another. And finally, an ardent speaker making a point leaned into the table a little too forcefully...
...that were not enough, the industry is still plagued with the problem of cleaning up after the Three Mile Island accident. The mishap left the containment building of TMI Unit No. 2 awash in eight feet of radioactive water. Decontamination crews late last month began moving the water through filters designed to remove radioactive material. The water will then be pumped into storage tanks on the island and held until the remaining radioactivity drops low enough to permit it to be dumped somewhere or other, which could take 40 to 50 years...
...Japan, where 22 facilities now generate 12% of the country's electricity, another 15 plants are set for completion by 1985. Yet a major mishap last March at a reactor in Tsuruga, where a ton of radioactive water leaked into nearby coastal waters, captured national headlines and fueled opposition to atomic power across the country. Japanese officials last year proposed dumping low-level wastes into the Pacific, but an international wave of protest quickly forced them to table the plan...
...steady pace. Eleven stations supply 13% of the nation's electricity, and another five plants are scheduled to be finished by the late '80s. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher is ardently pronuclear, though concern for safety is growing. Says a British Energy Department official: "The Three Mile Island mishap caused us to sit back and take stock...