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...officials seemed to handle the breakdown will not help the industry's image. The trouble was dismissed at first by Jack Herbein, Metropolitan Edison's vice president for power generation, in a memorable engineer's euphemism, as merely "a normal aberration." Reassuring statements spewed from the plant's press spokesmen, sounding as if they were taken right out of the script for the film The China Syndrome, a thriller that depicts nuclear plant officials as placing greed for profits far above their concern for public safety. But if the movie, starring real-life Antinuclear Activist Jane Fonda, is unfair...
...alarm sounded inside Unit 2 at 4 a.m. on Wednesday, only about 60 employees were at work. Precisely what the engineers at the control panels did to find out why the turbine had tripped?and just what steps they took next?will be the object of long investigations. Company spokesmen insisted that most of the procedures had been automatic, implying that all of the complex machinery, with its multiple, supposedly infallible back-up systems, had flipped into computer-controlled action...
...that happened? Curry and other company spokesmen began to backpedal and offered a new explanation. When the secondary loop lost pressure and the turbine stopped, they said, this caused a rise in both pressure and temperature in the primary loop. This, in turn, automatically opened several relief valves, letting some contaminated water leak onto the floor of the reactor building. Just "a small amount"? Well, no, conceded a company engineer. It was 50,000 gal. of water, and it accidentally overflowed the drainage tanks, covering the floor to a depth of "several feet." Later an NRC official said the leak...
...represented by the union participated in the strike Thursday and Friday, and each side accused the other of aggravating the dispute. Arthur G. B. Metcalf, chairman of the board of trustees, said Wednesday a faculty decision to strike would negate the agreements already reached (including any raises), but administration spokesmen backed off that statement yesterday...
...spokesmen for the Union of Concerned Scientists said his group was calling for an evacuation of the area surrounding the leaking Harrisburg reactor. "Some of that radioactivity may end up here, and if it does there are problems: 40 million people live between here and Harrisburg, and New York City is only 115 miles away," he said...