Customers burn electric bills in protest at TMI cleanup
On the third anniversary of Three Mile Island, about 75 protesters staged a bill burning on the Pennsylvania Capitol steps to urge that bill payments not fund the cleanup. Project David collected roughly 1,200 bills from Met Ed customers, accusing ratepayers of bearing the cleanup cost while calling for PUC action and bankruptcy.
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Harrisburg
Three Mile Island
State Capitol
Project
Project David
Metropolitan Edison Co
TMI
Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission
John Murdoch
Pennsylvania Power and Light Co
Pp&l
Berwick
Money shortage slows cleanup at nuclear plant
Three years after the Three Mile Island accident, cleanup funds are short and progress is slow. Congress considers new financing as GPU faces bankruptcy risks and delays loom for restarting Unit 1 while cleanup of damaged Unit 2 continues with limited progress and ongoing safety fears from local residents.
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Rich Kirkpatrick
Associated Press
Middletown
Three Mile Island
Congress
GPU
Transmitter Tracks Freed Harbor Seal Lena
A tracking transmitter was attached to Lena the harbor seal after she was raised in captivity and released near Boston. Found at two weeks old off Maine last summer she was released February 23 after wintering at the New England Aquarium. Biologists from the aquarium and the Manomet Bird Observatory will monitor Lena’s movements by plane as she sheds her winter coat and adapts to life in the wild.
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Boston
Lena
Maine
Aquarium
Manomet Bird Observatory
Leno
Japanese Foreign Minister Sakurauchi to visit Washington
Japanese Foreign Minister Yoshio Sakurauchi arrives in Washington for a five day visit. He is to meet President Reagan, Secretary Haig, and members of Congress. This marks his first trip since his December appointment.
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Washington
Yoshio Sakurauchi
Reagan
Alexander M. Haig Jr
Congress
U.S
Sakurauchi
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William Keisling
Dick Thorn
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David
Florence Kerns
Beryl
Lewis Young
Department of Energy
Doug Bedell
Bedell
Dick Thornburgh
The
Edison Electric Institute
Albert Gore
D-Tenn
House
Thornburgh
Clark
Delsey
Case
Hes
Albertsons
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Anyday
Pantiliners
NEW Freedom
MasterCard
VISA
East
Allied
New England Aquarium
Little Joe & Son
Produce Kings, Inc
Grandview
Wendys
Edward T. Driscoll
M.D
Stephen E. Driscoll
Driscoll Orthopedic Clinic
Sam Houston
Odessa
Appt
Orly
Leach
Slider & Hembree Optometrists
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