The meltdown of three reactors at a single generating station in Japan in March rekindled old concerns about the safety of nuclear power.

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Battersea power station, for instance, a moderately interesting electricity-generating station built between the 1930s and 1950s, has blighted 16 hectares of riverbank opposite Chelsea for three decades.

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But then at 4:00 a.m. on Mar. 28, 1979 a cooling valve got stuck at the Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station's Unit 2.

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