Word: plants
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...failure of a filtration system that caused a previously safe area of the plant to be contaminated with radioactive gases...
BOSTON--Several workers were exposed to radiation at the closed Pilgrim nuclear power plant in Plymouth last weekend, Boston Edison Co. said in announcing it had ordered contractors out of the plant...
...problems come at time when Edison is struggling to refurbish the plant and gain permission to reopen it sometime this winter. The plant has been closed since April 1986, for a series of mechanical and managerial problems...
...Iacocca announced that his company would speed up previously planned efforts to reduce its payroll. Iacocca intends by the end of the year to trim 3,500 white-collar employees from Chrysler's salaried work force of 38,000. In addition, the company will suspend production at an assembly plant in St. Louis for two weeks this month and will cancel plans to produce the Allure coupe. At GM, Chairman Roger Smith said the company would cut its costs by $4 billion, or 4%, next year. Some of the savings will come from accelerating a program to close 16 aging...
...tracking techniques continue to improve, regulators may allow more field tests of genetically altered organisms. Few scientists expect a repeat of Strobel's iconoclastic behavior. Says Nickolas Panopoulos, a University of California, Berkeley, plant pathologist: "I don't think anyone would risk his career, bad publicity and maybe no grants for years to do it. And I would hope there won't be more unregulated releases, because it creates a bad impression...