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...after several days of public agonizing and behind-the-scenes bickering with the utility companies, the NRC reached a Solomonic decision that was face-saving for everyone. It issued a shutdown agreement, but only after the utilities "voluntarily" offered to suspend operations at the nine B & W plants, including Three Mile Island's disabled reactor. One objective was political: the beleaguered NRC wants to convince critics that it is indeed a vigilant watchdog...
Earlier in the week, NRC Chairman Joseph M. Hendrie had gloomily warned that the shutdowns would have a "profound importance for our power supply." For one thing, the utilities that own the B & W reactors would be forced to buy electricity elsewhere for their customers. That would be costly. William Lee, chief executive of North Carolina's Duke Power Co., estimated that the cost of such a shutdown would run more than $100 million a month. But, under the compromise, these forecasts seemed somewhat alarmist...
...last into the peak summer season. But Harold Denton, the NRC's reactor regulations chief, was more skeptical. Something of a hero in the nuclear field for his cool troubleshooting at Three Mile Island in the wake of March's accident, he insisted that all B & W pressurized water reactors were susceptible to the kind of failures that occurred in Pennsylvania. Of Lee's optimistic prediction, he said: "Perhaps he's ingenious and will come up with a way to do it." Clearly, Denton had some doubts...
Cambridge city officials said they were sure, though, that the University owes money to the city. "The way electricity prices have been going up, it could be a pretty substantial amount of money," a spokesman for Mayor Thomas W. Danehy said yesterday. He added the city manager as beginning an inspection of Harvard-owned streets to determine just how much the charge will come...
Cambridge Mayor Thomas W. Danehy said yesterday officials requested a bigger increase, adding that tax-exempt organizations like Harvard and MIT should give the city a little more than they already...