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Mike Gray dies at 77; co-wrote 'China Syndrome' screenplay
Mike Gray, an author, activist and documentarian who co-wrote the Oscar-nominated screenplay for "The China Syndrome," the provocative 1979 film about a cover-up at a nuclear power plant, died Tuesday of heart failure at his Hollywood Hills home, his...
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NRC raising oversight of Pennsylvania Three Mile Island reactor
ReutersApril 30 (Reuters) - The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) said on Tuesday it will increase oversight of Exelon Corp's 805-megawatt Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania, to ensure that safety equipment is protected from flooding....Tags: U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Harrisburg (Dauphin, Pennsylvania), Japan Nuclear Emergency (2011), Nuclear Accidents, Nuclear Power
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CNN continues acquisition spree with 'Pandora's Promise'
CNN Films is stepping up its acquisition efforts. One week after landing the television rights to the Penny Lane documentary “Our Nixon,” the network has acquired domestic television broadcast rights to the Sundance film selection “...
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Chambersburg Area Middle School North hosts emergency drill
waynesboro@herald-mail.comAs teenage athletes left Chambersburg Area Middle School North on Wednesday evening, firetrucks and other emergency vehicles descended on the parking lot for a drill related to an mock attack at a nuclear power plant. Emergency services officials...Tags: FEMA, Franklin County (Pennsylvania), Harrisburg (Dauphin, Pennsylvania), Disasters and Accidents, Health and Safety at School
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PASSINGS: Dyer Brainerd Holmes, T.S. Cook, Joel Schaeffer
Dyer Brainerd Holmes NASA manned space flight director Dyer Brainerd Holmes, 91, director of manned space flight for NASA when Americans were making their early forays into space in the early 1960s, died Friday at a hospital in Memphis, Tenn., of...Tags: Cornell University, Jane Fonda, Space Programs, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Iowa
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To fight fracking, what Pennsylvania needs is a masterpiece
Movies can have a tremendous impact on society, if they're skillfully made. "Triumph of the Will" was a stunning documentary that helped Adolf Hitler consolidate power. "An Inconvenient Truth," a documentary about former Vice President Al Gore's...
Tags: Allentown, Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), Gasland (movie), Tom Corbett, Environmental Cleanup
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Tom Roberts, violin collector and anonymous Smithsonian donor
TOM ROBERTS, 75, Smithsonian's 'Mr. Anonymous' The name "Tom Roberts" appears on no plaque in the Smithsonian Institution's musical instruments collection. At no concert, even when Mr. Roberts was in attendance, did Smithsonian chamber musicians...Tags: George H.W. Bush, Georgetown, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Politics, Entertainment
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Cheap natural gas, caution curb nuclear energy
It's radioactive, its plants can be expensive to build and it scares the bejeebers out of many, but to some, nuclear energy is the future.
That may well be true, but for now, the race to that future has slowed to a cautious crawl as regulators have...Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Plant Openings, Companies and Corporations, Natural Gas, Natural Resources
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Harry McPherson Jr. dies at 82; LBJ's top speechwriter
Harry C. McPherson Jr., who served as special counsel and chief speechwriter for President Lyndon Johnson from 1966 to '69 and was a valued advisor to the president on civil rights, the Vietnam War and other policy issues, has died. He was 82. McPherson,...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Civil Rights, Politics, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Columbia University
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Wednesday Morning Coffee: Our Rick's Very Big Night.
Capitol Ideas with John L. MicekGood Wednesday Morning, Fellow Seekers. OK. We admit it. We didn't see this one coming. When we left the office last night, we figured that all Rick Santorum had to do was not get totally blown out in Iowa in...... -
Nuclear power: Feds may OK first reactors since Three Mile Island
Nation NowGeorgia nuclear power plant: Federal regulators are scheduled to vote on whether to approve construction plans for two Georgia nuclear reactors; the reactors would be the first nuclear plants built since the 1979 meltdown at Three Mile Island.... -
U.S. nuke regulators weaken safety rules
Federal regulators have been working closely with the nuclear power industry to keep the nation’s aging reactors operating within safety standards by repeatedly weakening those standards, or simply failing to enforce them, an investigation by The...Tags: Plant Openings, Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), Building Material, Ohio, Cook County Government
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