Word: wayes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...notice that "a small amount" of radioactive water had leaked onto the floor of the containment building. That meant the primary loop, which brings cooling water into direct contact with the radioactive reactor core and keeps its temperature at a safe 600° F., had been affected in some unexplained way. Curry insisted that an emergency was declared almost immediately and the proper state and local authorities promptly notified. State police immediately blocked off the two bridges leading to the 600-acre island, letting through only plant officials...
...inside their houses and to keep air conditioners turned off to limit the intake of any contaminated air. To prevent looting, Mayor Robert Reid imposed a 9 p.m.-to-7 a.m. curfew. The Red Cross was ready for any full-scale evacuation. It was no new thing, in a way; the town had been cleared during several recent floods, dating from the big one of 1972. Across the river, tiny Goldsboro (pop. 600) was virtually a ghost town...
...what is known about the dangers of radiation comes from studies of people exposed to extremely high levels, such as the survivors of the A-bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki and patients who were massively dosed with X rays for ailments now no longer treated in this way...
...total energy picture. Now, in the shock of the Three Mile Island nightmare, the question arises whether reactors will ever be able-or be allowed-to contribute much more than the 14% of electricity production and almost 4% of total energy consumption that they supply today. "The way I see it, the nuclear power industry does not have a future," says an executive of an atomic plant near Toledo. His gloom is extreme, but the friends and foes of nuclear power agree that the Pennsylvania accident can only strengthen the effective campaign against the building of new nuclear facilities. Says...
Alvin Weinberg, a nuclear power advocate and coauthor of a new book, Economic and Environmental Implications of a U.S. Nuclear Moratorium, believes the alternatives to atomic power "are so crummy that we probably should in a cautious way continue this nuclear enterprise." Other experts will certainly disagree. Perhaps the most unarguable assessment is that of Pennsylvania Republican Senator Richard Schweiker: "The nuclear industry is on trial as it never has been before...