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...atomic energy issue aroused by the newly released movie, The China Syndrome, the latest in a long series of nuclear-related miscues received an inordinate share of media attention. Three Mile Island was the symbol of all that was wrong (or could go wrong) with a nuclear reactor: the anti-nuclear activists couldn't have staged a better dramatization of their fears...
What proves most alarming in the aftermath of the entire Pennsylvania affair is the incompetence, misinformation, misdirection and unpreparedness of the so-called experts who were attempting to handle the Three Mile Island accident. Despite early promises that the reactor shutdown was "routine" and a matter of "little concern" to the public, the situation turned out to be one of the most serious accidents in the annals of atomic power...
...staff members had earlier said further "actions" should be considered "for all light water power reactor facilities." All of the nation's 72 licensed nuclear plants except the one at Plattsville, Co. are light water facilities...
...staff members said they discovered certain instruments in some power plants designed by Westinghouse can give conflicting and misleading readings about coolant water levels in the reactor. NRC officials have said a similar situation existed at Three Mile Island and may have contributed to the accident...
...operational in the U.S., and the Carter Administration's energy planners had projected as many as 500 by the year 2000, producing a quarter of the country's power. But construction has turned down sharply since the peak year of 1974, when utilities ordered 26 new reactors. Between 1975 and 1977, three or four a year were ordered; in 1978 there were only two. Many earlier reactor orders have been canceled or deferred...