Nuclear Waste

February 28, 2004
Criticism of dump mounts Yucca Mountain foes urge defeat of budget
Las Vegas Review-Journal
WASHINGTON -- Environmental organizations launched new criticism Friday at the Yucca Mountain Project, urging Congress to investigate safety practices at the nuclear waste repository site and reject a budget increase sought by the Energy Department.

Feb. 28, 2004
Japan Faces Anniversary of U.S. Nuke Test
Mari Yamaguchi, Associated Press
TOKYO - On the night of March 1, 1954, the No. 5 Fukuryu-maru was trolling for tuna off the Bikini atoll in the Pacific. Suddenly, fisherman Matashichi Oishi saw the midnight sky flash orange and a rumbling shook the trawler. As he and 22 other crew members rushed to the deck, tiny white flakes began to fall on them like snow.

March 23, 2004
25 Years After Three Mile Island Concerns Linger
By Chris Baltimore, Reuters
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Twenty-five years after a near-catastrophe at the Three Mile Island nuclear plant exposed lax safety practices, owners and regulators of the nation's aging fleet of 103 reactors still face nagging questions about their ability to prevent mishaps.

March 25, 2004
Memories linger after Three Mile Island accident
By Dawn Fallink, Philadelphia Inquirer
Tom Richards retired from his job at Three Mile Island 10 years ago, but the nuclear power plantremains ever-present, shadowing his moves on the Sunset Golf Course, where he works as a groundskeeper. Some day when the still-operating Unit 1 is closed and the complex razed, maybe people will stop asking about what happened in Middletown, Pa., during the early morning of March 28, 1979.

March 27, 2004
Nuke Industry Cites 25 Years of Progress
Wilmington Morning Star, NC
By H. Josef Hebert, Associated Press Writer>br>A quarter-century after the country's worst nuclear accident, the atomic power industry is talking about revival. Yet no one can predict when a new reactor will be built and the industry cannot shake perceptions about safety, uncertain economics and a new specter - terrorism.

March 28, 2004
Small crowd marks TMI accident with protests at Salem reactors
Associated Press,The Gloucester County Times, NJ
LOWER ALLOWAYS CREEK, N.J. - About 45 people marked the 25th anniversary of the Three Mile Island nuclear accident with a protest at the Salem and Hope Creek nuclear plants that called for their shutdown.

March 28, 2004
TMI - 25 Years Later
CBS 3 | kyw.com
About 45 people marked the 25th anniversary of the Three Mile Island nuclear accident with a protest at the Salem and Hope Creek nuclear plants that called for their shutdown. Former employee Kymn Harvin complained to the crowd about safety at the plants operated by Public Service Enterprise Group's nuclear division, the Gloucester County Times reported.

March 28, 2004
'I was afraid... of what the worst might be'
By Dawn Fallik, Philidelphia Inquirer
Interviews about Three Mile Island often reflect the fear, the fury and the frustration of not knowing what was going on. And a just-released oral history of 400 local residents adds an oft-forgotten element: that humor and calm also existed in the midst of chaos.

March 28, 2004
Sunday Marks Three Mile Island Anniversary
About 135,000 Residents Evacuated Area
ThePittsburghChannel.com
MIDDLETOWN, Pa. -- It was 25 years ago Sunday that a malfunction at the Three Mile Island nuclear plant on the Susquehanna River caused the worst nuclear plant scare in U.S. history. At about 4 a.m. on March 28, 1979, operators in the control room at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant noticed a glitch in the Unit Two cooling system.

March 28, 2004
Workers Who Helped Avert Full Meltdown at Three Mile Island Recall the Day
York Daily Record, Pa.
Around 4 a.m. March 28, 1979, workers in Three Mile Island's control room realized something wasn't right with Unit 2.A signal on the control panel alerted them that the nuclear power plant had stopped feeding electricity to the grid. Eight seconds later, another signal warned that the Unit 2 reactor was down. Something was wrong.

March 28th, 2004
Nuke industry cites progress in 25 years since Three Mile Island
The News Tribune - Tacoma, WA
WASHINGTON (AP) - A quarter-century after the country's worst nuclear accident, the atomic power industry is talking about revival. Yet no one can predict when a new reactor will be built and the industry cannot shake perceptions about safety, uncertain economics and a new specter - terrorism.

March 28, 2004
Nuclear industry cites progress in 25 years since Three Mile Island
The St. Augustine Record
By H. Josef Hebert AP
WASHINGTON -- A quarter-century after the country's worst nuclear accident, the atomic power industry is talking about revival. Yet no one can predict when a new reactor will be built and the industry cannot shake perceptions about safety, uncertain economics and a new specter -- terrorism.

March 28, 2004
Voices from past tell of fear, humor in nuclear shadow
Contra Costa Times
By Dawn Fallik Knight Ridder Newspapers
Interviews about Three Mile Island often reflect the fear, the fury and the frustration of not knowing what was going on.And a just-released oral history of 400 local residents adds an oft-forgotten element: that humor and calm also existed in the midst of chaos.

March 28, 2004
NUCLEAR REVIVAL
The Mercury News, CA
When Three Mile Island's Unit 2 sustained a partial meltdown 25 years ago, conventional wisdom held that the accident would cripple the nuclear power industry.

March 28, 2004
Three Mile Island memories still linger 25 years on
The Salt Lake Tribune, UT
Tom Richards retired from his job at Three Mile Island 10 years ago, but the nuclear power plant remains ever-present, shadowing his moves on the Sunset Golf Course, where he works as a groundskeeper.

March 28, 2004
Nuclear power industry getting fired up again
Many see a new day for energy source
By Brett Lieberman, The Times-Picaqune, LA
WASHINGTON -- Three years ago, Ron Simard built a series of speeches on nuclear power around a single theory: "The future isn't what it used to be." During a 30-year career in the nuclear power industry, Simard had watched as optimistic industry projections turned out to be wildly inaccurate. Instead of 1,000 reactors operating in the United States by 2000, scores of planned plants were scrapped, and dozens of others took years longer and billions of dollars more to build.

March 28, 2004
For county residents, nuclear power also a concern
By Bill Gallo, Jr., Today's Sunbeam, NJ
SALEM -- At the time of the Three Mile Island nuclear accident, the presence of nuclear power in Salem County was a relatively new thing. After several surveys, Newark-based Public Service Electric and Gas Co. settled on Artificial Island in rural Lower Alloways Creek Township as the site to build its nuclear generating complex.

March 28, 2004
Nuclear lesson learned. 25 years after scare at Three Mile Island, energy facilities are safer, experts say.
The Indianapolis Star, IN
A quarter-century after the country's worst nuclear accident, the atomic power industry is talking about revival. Yet no one can predict when a new reactor will be built, and the industry cannot shake perceptions about safety, uncertain economics and a new specter -- terrorism.

March 28, 2004
America quenches thirst for energy with nuclear power
Roanoke Times, VA
PHILADELPHIA - When Three Mile Island's Unit 2 sustained a partial meltdown 25 years ago, conventional wisdom held that the accident would cripple the nuclear power industry. So much for conventional wisdom. The United States now generates three times as much nuclear power as in 1979, by far the steepest increase among major sources of electricity.

March 28, 2004
Three Mile Island changed UI professor's life
By Mike McWilliams, Iowa City Press-Citizen
Bill Field first heard of a small leak at the Three Mile Island nuclear plant about 10 a.m. as he drove his 1969 Ford Mustang to class at Millersville University in Pennsylvania.