Word: safes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...number of people we've had to deal with." The visitors found the residents, as well as workers at the plant, surprisingly calm. "There was an accident, not a disaster," insisted William Metzger, a maintenance man on Three Mile Island. "I'm not afraid. I think these plants are safe." Asked Co-Worker William Wilsbach: "Do you think I'd work here if I thought it was dangerous?" In Harrisburg, Secretary Margaret Duffy dismissed the whole fuss as "much ado about nothing." Mary Anne Koehler, who is seven months pregnant, said she would worry a lot more about damage...
...what to do, so I guess the best thing is to go It's better than doing nothing." She said she had often argued with her husband Harry when he raised questions about living so close to the plant. "I just believed the company when they said it was safe Now I don't believe...
...precaution, the reactor and primary loop are shielded by a thick concrete containment dome, which should prevent the venting of any radioactivity into the atmosphere-as long as a meltdown does not occur and if there are no other mishaps or blunders. Obviously, at Three Mile Island, these fail-safe systems somehow failed...
...experts-can say for sure that he is totally wrong. Despite science's long experience with radiation and bitter knowledge of its risks, like the cancers inflicted on early radium workers, including Madame Curie, disturbingly little is known about how much radiation, or what length of exposure, is safe for humans...
...series of papers, a young woman whose husband had to go to Harrisburg on business stood up and addressed the panel. Said she: "I don't want him to go, but he says it's his job. We're having a big fight." Would he be safe? she asked the physicians. None could give her a firm answer...