Title: FW: PBS Investigates the Near-Meltdown of a Nuclear Power Plant in Ohio
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Dear Jane Sherry, While the United States Senate is considering passing a bill that will cap the liability of nuclear power plant operators should there be an accident or a terrorist attack on the plant, NOW visits Ohio's Davis-Besse Nuclear Power Station, which was shut down last year because of the most extensive corrosion ever discovered at a nuclear power plant. The facility was closed after workers found a six-by-five inch cavity in its reactor head that eventually could have caused a meltdown--the closest the U.S. has come to a nuclear accident since Three Mile Island in 1979. This week FirstEnergy, which operates the plant, postponed a scheduled refueling of the reactor, which once supplied electricity to 150 thousand people. On Friday, January 24, 2003, at 9 p.m., on PBS (check local listings at http://www.pbs.org/now/sched.html <http://www.pbs.org/now/sched.html> ), NOW with Bill Moyers investigates the Davis-Besse incident to uncover whether industry profits were put before public safety and examines concerns about the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's ability to effectively monitor all of the nation's 104 nuclear reactors. Tune in and join the post-broadcast discussion at www.pbs.org/now <http://www.pbs.org/now> <http://www.pbs.org/now> .
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