Word: startup
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...proposed modification in emergency planning standards is designed principally to facilitate the startup of two $5 billion reactors on the East Coast--Seabrook in New Hampshire and Shoreham on Long Island, N.Y.--despite claims by local authorities that area residents could not be evacuated safely in the event of a serious accident...
...Dukakis and New York Governor Mario Cuomo have managed to block the startup of Shoreham and Seabrook because NRC rules adopted in the wake of the 1979 accident at Three Mile Island, Pa., virtually require state and local cooperation in planning for the evacuation of residents within 10 miles of a reactor in the event of a major accident...
...startup of the diesels means that the 6.4 megawatt MATEP can finally start achieving the energy efficiency for which it was designed. Approval of the diesels came earlier this month when a state agency ruled that while poisonous exhaust from MATEP's stack could give four people lung cancer over the 40-year operating life of the plant, that risk is not unreasonable...
Last week the factory, built to combat the manufacturing know-how of Japanese computer makers, was still having startup troubles...
...wrong: Time Inc. announced last week that TV-CABLE WEEK was far behind its circulation targets, and will close with the Sept. 25 issue. Estimated pretax losses: $47 million, almost half of the $100 million that the company had planned to lay out during a four-to five-year startup. Said Time Inc. Editor in Chief Henry Grunwald and President J. Richard Munro: "We were prepared to spend more-if the prospects had warranted it. In our judgment they...