The Nation - News from Dec. 2, 1985
A minute amount of radioactivity was released when the working reactor at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant at Middletown, Pa., shut down because of a malfunction in its electrical generator, its operator said. The Unit 1 reactor was started about 12 hours later, said Lisa Robinson of GPU Nuclear Corp., which operates the plant. No emergency was declared, she said. The plant was to be returned today to the 75% power production level at which it was operating, Robinson said.
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