PHILADELPHIA NEWSPAPERS v. NUCLEAR REGULATORY COM'N

No. 83-1698.

727 F.2d 1195 (1984)

PHILADELPHIA NEWSPAPERS, INC., Appellant, v. NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION.

United States Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided February 10, 1984.

As Amended February 10, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ann C. Yahner, Washington, D.C., with whom Herbert E. Milstein, Washington, D.C., was on the brief, for appellant.

Newman T. Halvorson, Asst. U.S. Atty., Washington, D.C., with whom Stanley S. Harris, U.S. Atty., Washington, D.C., at the time the brief was filed, Royce C. Lamberth, R. Craig Lawrence, and Michael J. Ryan, Asst. U.S. Attys., Washington, D.C., and Herzel H.E. Plaine, Gen. Counsel, E. Leo Slaggie, Acting Sol., and Irwin B. Rothschild, III, Atty., N.R.C., Washington, D.C., were on the brief, for appellee.

Before WRIGHT and TAMM, Circuit Judges, and SWYGERT, Senior Circuit Judge.


Opinion for the court filed by Circuit Judge J. SKELLY WRIGHT.

J. SKELLY WRIGHT, Circuit Judge:

Few events in recent years have so stirred the public to alarm as the nuclear accident on March 28, 1979 at Three Mile Island Unit 2 (TMI-2). Widespread anxiety persists to this day, particularly among those who live in the shadows of the twin reactors at the site. These residents of Pennsylvania, and the newspapers that serve them, have followed with a keen eye...

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