Word: reactors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pipes. The containment, looking out over Long Island Sound, its grey exterior matching the thick cloud covering above, was the symbol of the nuclear power plant; to those who had come to protest it, it represented all that was evil about nukes. Though no protesters would actually reach the reactor building that Sunday afternoon (and only one tried), it was visible throughout the 850-sq.-acre enclosed construction site, its presence felt...
...nearly 600 charged with criminal tresspassing in the largest act of anti-nuclear in the largest act of anti-nuclear civil disobedience since "the Seabrook 1414" in April 1977, and over 15,000 at a separate legal rally held on a strip of beach a mile from the Shoreham reactor...
...France, where saboteurs had earlier blown up a $15 million nuclear reactor bound for Iraq, protesters from the Cherbourg suburb of Equeurdreville were urging the closing of another reprocessing plant. In Denmark, officials announced they were rethinking their plans for new plant construction, and in Sweden the atomic energy inspection board reported that two nuclear reactors similar to the one at Three Mile Island would have to be retrofitted with systems that would deflate any hydrogen gas bubbles...
President Carter, having once helped disassemble a damaged nuclear reactor core, apparently has no doubts about the effectiveness and necessity of nuclear power. But last Sunday's demonstration reminded him of the antinuclear movement's possible political strength. Although he had declined an invitation to speak at the rally, he afterward invited the organizers to a quickly called meeting at the White House. "It is out of the question to pre-emptively shut all nuclear plants in the country," he told them, but he did say he would like to "minimize the requirement for nuclear power...
...admitted that it may have overestimated the seriousness of the large hydrogen bubble that formed in the reactor vessel. Despite that small explosion, investigators now believe there was never any danger of a bigger blast, which could have ruptured the reactor vessel and containment building, spreading deadly radiation. The false alarm was caused by incorrect speculation about free oxygen in the vessel...