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SEABROOK, N.H.--Anti-nuclear protesters failed yesterday afternoon to prevent a reactor pressure vessel from passing through the south gate of the Seabrook nuclear power plant...
Chanting "Remember Three Mile Island--can we forget Seabrook?," about 250 activists assembled at the gate to show their continued opposition to the construction of the plant. Individual protesters attempted to sit in the path of the 450-ton vessel, but police quickly removed them...
...reactor vessel, in which the fission takes place, is "the exact same design as the vessel that came within 40 minutes of melting down at Three Mile Island," Thayer said...
...been working on what he hopes will be the definitive fix on their authorship and origin. Among Foti's theories, the most probable could be that a Roman ship returning from plundering Greece was caught in a storm, and the statues were jettisoned to save the vessel from foundering...
...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...