The Nation - News from April 17, 1987
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission began weighing a controversial plan by the operator of the Three Mile Island nuclear plant to evaporate 2.1 million gallons of radioactive water into the atmosphere. Some of the water is left over from the nation’s worst commercial nuclear accident at the Pennsylvania plant’s Unit 2 reactor in 1979, while some was used to decontaminate plant equipment. The NRC commissioners said they would not make a judgment until publication of an environmental impact statement on the plan.
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