N-firm sues U.S. Govt
NZPA-ReuterThree . Mile Island The owner of the Three Mile Island nuclear plant yesterday blamed the United States Government for the 1979 accident at the plant and filed a $4 billion suit against the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. ' On. March 28, 1979, radioactive gases escaped at Three Mile Island, Pennsylvania. and a big hydrogen
gas bubble formed in the top of the reactor’s containment vessel. The accident left General Public Utilities, the plant’s owner, with a six-year cleaning chore estimated to cost as much as $1.3 billion. F.P.U. alleges that Government 1 inspectors neglected to give it information gathered after a malfunction in 1977 at Ohio’s Davis-Besse nuclear plant that could have
prevented the mishap. G.P.U. said it wanted $1 billion to pay for cleaning the plant, $1.6 billion for power it bought after the accident, $950 million for lost revenues, $430 million for repairs, and $4O million for increased borrowing costs. The Federal Government has already earmarked $3O million for G.P.U. and Congress is considering giving it another $123 million.
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