Word: plante
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There will probably not be a rapid expansion of nuclear plant construction not only because of the Harrisburg incident, but also because of the expense and regulatory time lags involved in the plant construction, Cohen said...
REGULATION. Experts from the NRC should be on duty in the control room of every reactor round the clock, armed with full authority to take over at the first sign of trouble, order a shut down if that seems necessary, direct all emergency procedures for closing the plant-and damn what it may cost. At present, this responsibility is borne largely by utility-company employees, who, with the best will in the world, cannot avoid thinking about the costs to the company. In addition, computers at all U.S. nuclear plants should be wired in to a central NRC monitoring station...
While the Airbus consortium itself is not yet a giant, it is quickly becoming an important source of jobs as well as pride in Europe. Production at the final assembly plant in Toulouse, France, is scheduled to increase from 2.3 planes a month to six by 1982. The consortium's payroll will rise from 17,000 to 40,000 in the four participating countries, which divvy up the manufacturing in rough proportion to their Airbus ownership-37.9% for both France and West Germany, 20% for Britain, and 4.2% for Spain. The four have invested some $3 billion...
...Policy Project. Companies that mine and use coal formed it with environmental leaders, and together they reached productive compromises to speed the digging and burning of coal. Similarly, Diebold's clients ponder the example of Pennsylvania Power & Light and Canada's Ontario Hydro. Before building a power plant, they solicit citizen volunteers to examine a number of sites and pick the one that seems the most desirable-and environmentally safest. Perhaps other corporations would be wise to join with real or potential critics instead of fighting them so hard...
HARRISBURG, Pa.--New tests show that the core of the nuclear reactor at the Three Mile Island power plant which failed last month suffered grave damage in the early stages of the crisis, federal officials announced yesterday...