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Dates: during 1970-1979
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HARRISBURG, Pa.--Utility stockholders and customers are disputing who will pay the estimated $1 million-a-day cost of replacing electricity generated by the crippled Three Mile Island nuclear energy plant...
Replacement costs are normally passed along to customers automatically. That would mean the 346,000 customers served by Metropolitan Edison Co., operator and part-owner of the plant, could pay an extra $7.50 a month, federal energy experts...
...same time, The New York Times reported that a government inspection file outlined problems in the Three Mile Island plant long before the March 28 accident. The report singled out the same valves and cooling system apparatus that failed during the accident. The NRC inspection even cited "personnel error" as a problem, but no action was taken. Instead, Metropolitan Edison pressed for the scheduled December 30, 1978, date for full-power operation of its reactor--to gather precious federal tax depreciation gains...
Health officials feared that the pastures where Hershey cows graze might be contaminated by radioactivity from the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant. Cows' milk could absorb cancer-causing radioactive material from the grass which the cows eat, the officials added...
However, radiation levels in samples of milk taken in the nuclear plant area ranged from undetectable to far below danger levels, Pennsylvania state officials said...