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Baker's store carries an assortment of T shirts bearing legends like "Happiness is a cool reactor" and "Hell no, we won't glow" that are selling well. Joyce Yinger has an even bigger stock of nuclear memorabilia. In addition to T shirts, she has ceramic lamps shaped like cooling towers, T.M.I. belt buckles, and even a gag T.M.I. vasectomy kit. "Business was just great last summer," she said. "It'll pick up again when the tourists start coming." And once the weather starts to clear, visitors should be descending upon the area, if what happened last...
...stubborn opposition to reopening the disabled and discredited Unit 2 when the cleanup is over. Met-Ed estimates it will take at least three years (federal authorities put the figure closer to five). But Middletowners are resigned to the fact that the company will probably start up the nuclear reactor in Unit 1 some time around the end of the year. Unit 1, which was undamaged by the accident in its sister installation, was shut down for routine refueling at the time of the mishap. The company has asked the NRC for permission to put it into operation...
...result was that orders for new reactors, which hit a high of 41 in 1973, declined to two in 1978 and zero in 1979. Since the accident, five utility companies have dropped plans to build a total of nine nuclear plants. The cancellations hit hard at the reactor manufacturers. Westinghouse, which has long dominated the U.S. nuclear industry, has built 25 of the 72 nuclear plants licensed to operate in the country and has orders dating back a decade for 69 reactors, 24 of them to be built abroad. But other U.S. reactor manufacturers are faring badly. Babcock & Wilcox, which...
PIERCE stuck open, and some steam generators boiled dry within minutes. Today, operators drill to handle multiple failures, and all 2,500 licensed reactor operators in the U.S. have gone through the sequence that occurred at T.M.I. In Soddy-Daisy, Term., an annual two-week refresher course covering multiple breakdowns is offered by the Tennessee Valley Authority...
Emphasizing Theory. The Kemeny commission found that training did not pay enough attention to the theory of how the system worked. One mistake of the T.M.I, operators, for example, was their failure to realize that hot water in the reactor core boiled into steam because of the loss of pressure during the accident. Says Toscas: "We're planning to add much more study of the basic theory of heat transfer, fluid flow, water and steam theory-all the stuff the operators flew right by before and which normal operating conditions don't require...