European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 7, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                By Stuart Diamond new York times Steven Martin and Mark Bezilla Hope to do this week in reality what they have practice for five years operate the unit 1 reactor at three mile Island in were a Little because we Are in a big Martin said in an everyone will be watching for a senior reactor stood with his co worker before a Model of the reactors control panel in a new training Center across from the nuclear Power but were All Bezilla we know this Plant inside he we Are confident we can operate this Plant we want to prove that were not bad just Down the Gwen who lives near the had a dramatically different reaction to the news that the unit would be As she walked past the Speed Wash coi operated i still have the she so do a lot of other we dont dwell on we dont Wake up every Day and of my Tim is close but the stress is the nuclear regulatory commission has Given approval for restarting three mile Island unit which was undamaged when its sister was severely damaged in March in what was the worst commercial nuclear Accident in court suits have been filed in an Effort to delay the june 11 restart but most people interviewed in the quiet Community of Middletown appear to have resigned themselves to the along the Sun drenched shops and it is Clear that there is wide division about the reactor and its the general Public utilities a protest that resulted in 82 arrests at the Tim Plant Fence does not appear to represent the feelings of just a fringe there is still a lot of sentiment that the Plant should not said Ben the publisher of a local weekly As he finished his corned beef and cabbage at Kuprys he More and More people Are resigned to the fact that this Plant will at the eating Peanut butter ice Karl Kupp the third generation owner of the said he saw it i personally dont think the Plant will Hurt he these Are highly educated people running the the diner is a kind of gossip and Kupp has been sampling opinion the Way 1 see he some Are for some Are against it and some dont have any emotion at All of when its in the news and the press comes around and asks about general Public utilities has also sampled it says that several Telephone which were conducted for it by recognized polling companies in the Region and state Over the past five show a 51 percent to 54 percent approval to restart unit it has been shut Down since the Accident in which a loss of Cooling water caused some melting of the nuclear fuel Core and severely damaged the in a poll carried on a primary ballot in three counties in residents of the area of Central Pennsylvania voted 2to1 against restarting the which is 10 Miles Southeast of the state in general Public utilities latest conducted late last in a statewide Sample Only 2 percent of the residents thought three mile Island and nuclear Power were the most important Public among people within 25 Miles of the percent said Tim and nuclear Power were the most important second Only to jobs and the we know there Are a number of people who Are sincerely concerned and who were emotionally seared by the said Philip manager of Public information for the Gnu nuclear operator of the three mile Island there is nothing we can do to satisfy those people Short of going away but there is a big group in the Middle that is a Little uneasy but we Are trying to get them information to Calm their before the unit 2 unit 1 had a Superior record for nearly five operating 76 percent of the As against an average of less than 60 percent for reactors Over a photo behind joggers at building housing unit 1 reactor undamaged in 1979 and since March 1979 More than 100 changes have been made for unit 1 added warnings and safety a tenfold increase in the training staff and and a doubling of the number of reactor to but there has been a steady Stream of accusations and failures by the Utility and its reactors Over the past six the decontamination of unit 2 has been delayed and the Gnu nuclear company metropolitan pleaded guilty to a criminal charge of improper testing procedures for water operators were found cheating on qualification tests for unit steam generators for unit 1 were found to have cracks in thousands of just after a Federal licensing panel in december 1981 found the Plant Safe for Low Power Walter owner of Rieders hardware in talked about those problems As he repaired a screen i used to be in favor of unit 1 and a lot of other people he but the steady syndrome of All these problems has just built up a lot of starting up again at 1985 the stars and stripes Page 13