Word: nationalizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...though, Three Mile Island will be truly effective only if it brings about the earnest investigations and reevaluations the public has been promised. Everyone from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to President Carter has pledged "a full accounting" of the Middletown accident and a subsequent reexamination of the nation's commitment to nuclear power. But as President Carter so aptly commented this week, "I think it does not contribute to safety to have a bureaucratic nightmare or maze of red tape." The studies, presidential commissions and congressional hearings inspired by the Three Mile Island incident threaten to degenerate into...
MORE IMMEDIATELY, though, we must be concerned with how to proceed in the effort to meet this nation's ever-expanding appetite for fuel. The President seems committed to the further development of nuclear power. He said this week we cannot "abandon the nuclear supply of energy in our country, in the for seeable future." His assessment is not astonishing, when cities like Chicago get almost half their electricity from nuclear plants and the nation as a whole gets 12 to 13 per cent of its electricity from reactors...
...history of conflicting studies, incomplete reports and unclear statements has to provoke some skepticism about the possible effectiveness of inquiries into nuclear power. With the nation demanding such huge quantities of energy, the big-money companies advocating the use of reactors, and the President hoisting the nuclear banner, the private individual must feel neglected in the scheme of concerns...
...staff members had earlier said further "actions" should be considered "for all light water power reactor facilities." All of the nation's 72 licensed nuclear plants except the one at Plattsville, Co. are light water facilities...
...union and trucking industry announced the contract agreement late Tuesday, ending a 10-day nation-wide trucking shutdown...