The Nation - News from March 29, 1988
The nation’s commercial nuclear power plants reported 2,810 accidents in 1987, about the same number as for a slightly smaller number of plants the previous year, a group critical of the industry said. The corresponding figure for 1986 was 2,836. At the end of last year, there were 105 nuclear plants in commercial operation against 99 at the same point a year earlier. The report was issued by the Critical Mass Energy Project of Public Citizen, a group founded with the help of Ralph Nader.
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