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Plant and federal officials said the bubble is now a much safer size and the reactor's temperature has dropped significantly. Harold Denton, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's (NRC) chief of operations said yesterday that only two out of 177 fuel cells in the reactor were still overheating...
...dramatic decrease" in the size of the gas bubble "is cause for optimism," Denton said, adding that radiation levels in the vicinity of the reactor were low and confined to a small area...
...operators of the plant reduced the size of the bubble by letting the gas dissolve in the reactor's circulating coolant system, then removing them in a chamber outside the reactor...
Despite the improvement of the situation at the plant, local civil defense officials yesterday continued to review plans for a precautionary evacuation of 25,000 residents within a five-mile radius of the reactor...
...seven plants were designed by Babcock and Wilson, the firm which designed the Harrisburg reactor...