IT was 4am on 28 March 1978. In Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, generators linked to the number two reactor at Three Mile Island were producing 800 megawatts of electrical power. At that time of the day, 40 per cent of the US's electricity Was coming nuclear power stations.
Suddenly, & hundred or more alarms went off in the control room at Three Mile Island. pump which supplies the generators had tripped, and within 12 seconds the reactor cut out, dropping the power level some 6 per cent of full power.
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radioactivity contained in AT TITORESTYA TRADIN TO SECT NATTEM opponents of nuclear power, energy we were minutes away from a core mell possible the Anti-Nuclear roenas or inę carin, anc organisations have called a demonLOUCH dEC Mile Island, and to oppose the plans of the to introduce pressurised reactors (PWI? to Britain ngures Why have the Tories, and the Labour Atomic Energy Authority say that Britain of something like 40,000 megawaus or sucigy by tre ycal due and that the only way of filling the gap is by money living Published by Releocrest Led. for Sectallet Chatt installing 20 new nuclear power stations.
Their choice is PWR When ontions: such as enercy conservaton, the increased use of coal, or of renewable sources such as solar, wave power could have exactly the same erect, way are tacy so Insisteal ou uk nuclear solution?
Cheap be told that electricity would be so cheap that it would be necessary to meter it. of Generating Board show the cost of nuclear generated electricity year was 1.6p kilowatt comber dutco lor coa With vast amounts of energy required to construct nuclear power stations, it is doubtiul programme would fill the energy takes from two to eight years for a reactor other to pay back the energy debt incurred in its construction.
SLUt by the or Research Unit at Sussex University shows that the load factor of PWRs -when the! electricity nuclear reactors.
So why the government's enthusiasm? The answer can partly be found in leaked nuclear Cabinet minutes:
would have the advantase of removine a Yet the substantial portion Scotland production aimuntion by industrial miners or transport workers.
hour, The reason for a nuclear programme with its secrecy and no-strike clauses; is to so that industry still runs and profits ar For some time, GEC has been pushing because they Science - Policy the time Also actually producing minutes - is among the lowest for GEC has a strengthened so 'A nuclear programme other of electricity the dangers A Lion o cow ment, Wolves IMG E Fredenburg J Webber Anon Hackney IMG Islington IMG for a substantial programme of PWRs "Te Deller pront spinner: than the existing advanced ga cooled which have to be produced on revealed in the Tory Cabinet a proposal for the role of the large shareholding, be that it would take ful contro of nucle words, the next generation of nuclear power stations would be built and run by privale capita mass movement has to be buil against these proposals, which entrust the sites and of the workers at the plants to GEC's quest for superprofits. Saturday's which noods • develop national links if it is to fight capitalism's most international industries Our thanks this week to:
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