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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...shows a near disaster at an atomic-powered electrical generating plant located uncomfortably near Los Angeles. The film also depicts the utility company that owns the plant and the contractor that built it resorting to lies, corruption and violence to prevent the public from discovering how narrowly a disaster was averted, how large is the potential for similar incidents in the future−and never mind the sizable body of scientific opinion about the improbability of a chain of accidents anything like that posited by the film...
Turning off the five plants, which together produce about 4.1 million kw of electric power, reflects the NRC's caution in the present fevered climate of public debate about the nation's use of reactors to provide energy. The NRC has not suggested that the plants are unsafe. But engineers from Pennsylvania's Duquesne Light Co., which operates one of the plants, and the Boston firm of Stone and Webster, which designed all five, found a mathematical defect in the computer program used to design some of the plants' coolant pipes so that they would...
...ordered the immediate shutdown of five mid-Atlantic and New England nuclear power generators on the statistically improbable grounds that an earthquake might occur near by and cause them to pour out radioactive materials. U.S. oil consumption will quickly jump by 100,000 bbl. a day as the affected public utilities switch to increased production by oil-fired generators...
Though the Carter Administration preaches austerity in pay raises as part of its anti-inflation gospel, some state and local legislators have been covering their ears and awarding themselves and other public employees hefty boosts. The irony is that these increases, which sometimes range well above the Government's voluntary guidelines limit of 7%, are made possible because of the rich flow of federal aid to states and localities. In many cases, the money for the raises is available because federal largesse pays for programs that the legislatures would otherwise have to fund. Government programs will this year enrich...
...time the White House considered trying to cut back on some federal aid to states that broke the guidelines, but dropped the idea because it was legally questionable as well as politically risky. Now Kahn says that the Administration will rely on "statesmanship and informed public opinion" to curb the spread of these "outrageous" increases. Unfortunately, that is not likely to be enough to hold down public wage raises, which are highly visible and thus set a tempting example for powerful unions in the trucking, electrical and other industries in this year of heavy labor bargaining...