Word: pennsylvania
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...many of the tourists who are flocking daily to Pennsylvania's crippled Three Mile Island nuclear power station, the 15-minute documentary may have the ring of authority. Prepared by Metropolitan Edison Co., the plant's operator, and being shown daily at the Observation Center across the river from Three Mile Island's cooling towers, the script has a glib explanation for last March's near disaster. It resulted, says the Met Ed film, from "a complex combination of equipment failures, ambiguous instruments and operator failures . . ." The production also insists that the amount of radiation released...
Some two inches thick and based on many hours of hearings, the NRC report will be some comfort to those who design and build reactors used to generate electricity. It states categorically that although the Pennsylvania plant was not "fail-safe," its equipment and emergency procedures "were adequate to have prevented the serious consequences of the accident, if they had been permitted to function or be carried out as planned." Trouble is, neither the equipment nor the preprogrammed safety procedures built into the Babcock & Wilcox reactor really got a chance...
...smooth Donald Sutherland, however, the memento is a little more exotic. Shooting scenes in the capital for Nothing Personal, a comedy in which they play two lawyers fighting a nefarious corporation while falling in love with each other, Somers and Sutherland took time out for a peek at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Jimmy Carter was busy and Rosalynn was out of town as they rolled up to the gate in his and her studio limousines, but swinging Son Chip happened to be on hand. "I see you're doing your part for the energy crisis," chided Chip, who then...
...more attractive to build cars in the U.S. than to import them from West Germany; because of the high wages and constantly climbing value of the German mark relative to the dollar, the total hourly labor costs amount to about $13.60 in Germany, vs. only $9 at the Pennsylvania factory...
Even in the unlikely event it decides against a second American plant, Volkswagen, which is engaged in a threeyear, $3.2 billion expansion program that is the largest in its history, has already budgeted about $640 million to build an engine plant in Mexico and to increase production at the Pennsylvania plant from the present 800 autos per day to 1,040 by 1981 . Schmücker's strategy is eventually to make the North American operation 90% self-sufficient, with only transmissions supplied from German plants...