81. A few utilities have faced such severe problems with nuclear plants that they have decided to shut the plants permanently, a costly and lengthy process. 82. A key issue was how utilities would be reimbursed for having to phase out plants, particularly high-cost nuclear plants, which would no longer be competitive. 83. A Russian environmental group says a blackout at a secret nuclear plant in the Urals nearly caused a global radiation catastrophe. 84. A New Scientist special report looks at what would happen if a passenger jet ploughed into a nuclear plant. 85. A nuclear plant, a geologist operating just within the fringes of scientific respectability and a drowned forest helped change all that. 86. A new pilot program under consideration would increase testing requirements at nuclear plants and require testing every three years instead of every eight. 87. A recent poll showed half of those surveyed supporting nuclear power, and more than half of those supporters had no qualms about living near a nuclear plant. 88. A number of county legislators said they would vote for a withdrawal, and no nuclear plant can maintain its license without a federally approved emergency plan. 89. A spokesman for the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna, Austria, said this week that nuclear plants across the world are at risk from airborne suicide attacks. 90. A view of Indian Point Nuclear plant with the Peekskill Train station in the foreground. |
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