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GENERAL PUBLIC UTILITIES CORP. v. UNITED STATES

Civ. A. No. 81-4950.

551 F.Supp. 521 (1982)

GENERAL PUBLIC UTILITIES CORPORATION, Jersey Central Power & Light Company, Metropolitan Edison Company, Pennsylvania Electric Company v. UNITED STATES of America.

United States District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania.

November 24, 1982.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David Klingsberg, James B. Liberman, New York City, Samuel B. Russell, Allen Seltzer, Reading, Pa., for plaintiffs.

James P. Klapps, Asst. Director, Torts Branch, J. Paul McGrath, Asst. Atty. Gen., Civ. Div., Dept. of Justice, K. Roxanne McKee, Trial Atty., Torts Branch, Civ. Div., Dept. Justice, James A. Fitzgerald, Acting Sol., Michael B. Blume, Atty., Nuclear Regulatory Com'n, Washington, D.C., Peter F. Vaira, Jr., U.S. Attorney, Philadelphia, Pa., for defendant.

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

TROUTMAN, District Judge.

Background

In the early morning hours of March 28, 1979, a turbine generator at plaintiffs'1 Three Mile Island Unit 2 nuclear facility (TMI), designed by Babcock & Wilcox (B & W), experienced a shutdown "trip" due to a loss of feedwater. Subsequently, a rapid heat buildup raised the pressure in the reactor coolant system and caused a pilot-operated relief...

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