TMI legacy of mistrust in nuclear power
Editor notes on the Three Mile Island accident and its enduring impact. One year after the TMI incident the nuclear industry confronts a persistent loss of public trust as it wrestles with the symbol of a catastrophic failure. Fortune Magazine quotes officials and industry figures reflecting on the lasting stigma and future of nuclear power.
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Three Mile Leland
TMI
Washington
Three Mile Island
Fortune
W. Wilvon Goode
Public Utility Commission of Pennsylvania
Gas Town: Free Coffee Amidst High Fuel Costs
In Gas Kansas residents cope with gasoline over a dollar a gallon while free natural gas flows from backyard wells. The town, born from a vast gas field, built booms, lit streets, and produced smelters, but now grapples with aging resources and rising energy prices. Local business owner Ray Pershall notes deterring purchases yet views price shifts as fuel for national energy efforts.
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Cae
U.S
Ray Pershall
Perahall
Gladys Boeken
Nuclear power lobby and TMI mistrust linger after incidents
The industry promotes safer design and self insurance amid public skepticism following Three Mile Island. Spokesmen push a campaign stating no one was killed, while an emissions incident last month prompted Mayor Robert Reid of Middletown to request HEW radiation monitoring.
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TMI
Robert Reid
Middletown
Carter
Department of Health, Education and Welfare
Woman tends cemetery at Ebenezer United Methodist Church
Alice May Holdorf, known for tough talk, continues supervising cemetery work at Ebenezer United Methodist Church in Chase, Maryland. She has not dug a grave in two years after a bout with double pneumonia in February 1978, though she remains responsible for marking graves and ensuring proper digging.
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Alice May Holdorf
Ebenezer United Methodist Church
Holder
Oxford
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