Word: reopens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...nuclear power industry could also take heart from another Supreme Court ruling last week: the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) need not consider the psychological effects on local residents of reopening the undamaged reactor at the Three Mile Island nuclear facility near Harrisburg, Pa. The plant's other reactor had broken down on March 28, 1979; neither has been operating since. Leaders of People Against Nuclear Energy (PANE), the citizens group that challenged the startup, were disappointed but vowed to continue their fight. With NRC approval, however, Metropolitan Edison Co., which operates the plant, hopes to reopen the unharmed reactor...
...development will be to our advantage," said John Charprales, co-owner of One Potato Two Potato. "Our business will be better when we reopen," he added...
After hearing an appeal from the dead banker's family, three judges of England's High Court of Justice overturned the suicide verdict last week, citing irregularities in the way the July inquest was conducted. They ordered that a different coroner reopen the case, although they did not set a date for the new inquest. Calvi's widow Clara says that she did not take Dart in the first hearing because she had feared for her life, but she has promised to provide "fresh evidence" that her husband was murdered...
...residents are battling over the reopening of an undamaged unit on the island. That reactor, shut down for refueling when the accident struck its sister plant, has remained closed ever since. Opponents argue that restarting it would create worse emotional wounds and aggravate old ones. "It may well cause worse psychological reactions than the accident itself," says Holt. Last year a federal appeals court ordered the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to require the preparation find a psychological assessment, the first on record, and to consider the findings in deciding whether to allow the undamaged unit to reopen. The commission appealed...
...dispute underestimated by more than 20 percent the amount of reservation land for irrigation--thereby cheating the tribes of close to one-fourth of their water rights. The Court accepted these findings as true, but refused to grant the tribes' request, which was backed by contrite federal officials, to reopen proceedings that would enable the Indians to recover these rights...