More disturbing, however, was the fact that virtually the entire sequence of events at TMI had been duplicated 18 months earlier at another Babcock and Wilcox reactor, owned by Davis-Besse.
They said the reactor, owned by the Washington Public Power Supply System, might also be used to produce plutonium.
The $5.5 billion, 1,150-megawatt reactor, owned by 12 New England utilities and holding companies, was completed two years ago but remains idle because it lacks a Federally approved evacuation plan.
A Quicker Solution Converting civilian reactors, including dormant reactors owned by the Tennessee Valley Authority, a Federal agency, could be done more quickly and at much lower cost.
Unit 1, a 615-megawatt reactor wholly owned by Niagara Mohawk, began operating in 1969 and was not affected by the incident today.
The PARR-II Reactor is an indigenously designed and constructed reactor owned by the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission.
The plant will go from being a stand-alone reactor owned by 12 companies to one of 10 reactors owned by a single company.
The fishermen, Alfred Maderia and Timothy Medeiros, sued for damages in April to recover business losses they attributed to the nuclear reactors, owned by Northeast Utilities.
During that accident, a reactor owned by the Japan Atomic Power Company was forced to shut down after losing 51 tons of its radioactive cooling water.
This reactor, owned by the Consolidated Edison Company, set a world record last year when it completed 616 days of continuous operation.