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...vote and be done with it." So they did. When the 4.7 million ballots were counted, the pronukes had a clear majority: 58% voted yes, favoring completion of the country's half-finished nuclear program; only 39% voted for a proposal to abandon the country's reactor program...
...vote was watched closely in Western Europe. In Denmark, it was believed to have reinforced public sentiment in favor of starting a nuclear program to reduce the country's 95% dependence on imported energy. In Zurich, where a referendum will be held on April 27 concerning a sixth reactor, proponents of the project were encouraged...
...West Germany, with 15 reactors already in operation, the vote was regarded as a glancing political blow against the Greens-the antinuclear environmentalists who have conducted a successful campaign to hold up construction of eleven new nuclear plants. Even in France, Europe's second most advanced nuclear country, with 16 reactors, the Swedish trend captured attention because France has been confronted by local protests against a new reactor in Plogoff in Brittany. Conceded Austria's Chancellor Bruno Kreisky, whose country voted against nuclear power in 1978: "The Swedish result is impressive...
...nuclear physicist, who was the first to visit the power plant after the accident, said that 70 per cent of its reactor core has collapsed as a result of internal fusing, melting and splintering, and that six feet of debris is lying inside the reactor...
...they were ignored." Indeed a similar event began in 1977 in Toledo Edison's Davis-Besse 1 plant, and operators mistakenly cut off the operation of automatic emergency cooling pumps, just as they did at T.M.I. But at Davis-Besse the mistake was detected in time, and the reactor was quickly brought back to normal...