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MIDDLETOWN, Pa--A 14-member crew explored the Three Mile Island nuclear reactor containment building today after plant officials said that unexpectedly high radiation levels had been found in the wall joints of a connecting building... Today marked the fifth time since the 1979 accident that the highly radioactive containment building had been entered... The teams took photographs, videotape recordings and radiation readings and edged closer than ever to the vessel containing the crippled reactor...
...Island was more than a three-day sensation for the nation's press, and an invaluable restatement of the undeniable truth of the antinuclear movement. Whatever the truth about lowlevel radiation and the rest, there is a real possibility of failure, human or mechanical, risking a meltdown of a reactor core. With attendant disaster...
...rapidly in the field of nuclear power. The most aggressive program now belongs to France, which plans to draw 75% of its electricity from the atom by 1990. In 1983 France will complete work on its massive 1,200-megawatt Super Phenix, the country's second fast-breeder reactor. France also leads in developing types of nuclear-waste disposal technology...
...three, darted through the air with near impunity. Early in the week, two of the U.S.-built fighter-bombers swept undetected over the heart of Baghdad in broad daylight and bombed Iraq's controversial French-built nuclear research center. The bombs missed the $275 million reactor itself, but according to foreign eyewitnesses, they destroyed a number of auxiliary facilities at the center and inflicted large numbers of casualties...
Part of the Iraqi-French deal covers the sale of a nuclear reactor-a development that has caused great anxiety in Israel, which fears that Iraq, one of the Jewish state's archenemies, could develop a nuclear weapons potential. Indeed the Iran-Iraq conflict, the first recent major crisis in the region in which Israel is not involved, was being closely watched in Jerusalem. "That fight," said an Israeli official acidly, "is proof that there is an inherent instability in the Middle East of which we are not a part...