The Unit 2 reactor has been shut down since a partial meltdown in 1979.
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In earlier filings, Edison argued that its 70 percent target for Unit 2 was, in effect, full power.
Unit 2 had been taken offline earlier that month for maintenance, and investigators later found unexpected wear on hundreds of tubes inside both units.
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.
Edison has said that because of manufacturing differences, Unit 2's generators did not suffer the extent of deep tube wear witnessed in its sister plant.
Edison has been trying since October to convince the Nuclear Regulatory Commission that it's safe to run Unit 2 at no more than 70 percent power.
That thinking changed on March 28, 1979, when a small valve stuck open, cooling water escaped and the reactor core of TMI's Unit 2 began to melt.
Edison submitted a tentative request to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, technically known as a license amendment, that if approved would cap Unit 2's capacity at 70 percent, down from the now-required 100 percent.
Eight of the more than 9, 700 tubes in one of the unit 3 generators failed a pressure test, while six tubes in unit 2's reactor needed to be plugged, the NRC has found.
Intensely radioactive water from reactor Unit 2 is filling a nearby tunnel faster than workers can empty it, and radioactive levels of seawater near the plant increased sixfold following an aftershock on Saturday.
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Southern California Edison wants to change the plant's federal operating rules to permit the Unit 2 reactor to run at no more than 70 percent power, which company engineers and consultants believe will limit unusual tube wear.
"We are considering the proposed voluntary amendment as the best path to get Unit 2 safely up and running before the hottest months of the year hit our region, " SCE President Ron Litzinger said in a statement.
He and two others were arrested by the Avon and Somerset economic crime unit on 2 December.
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Overall, Forrester expects PC market unit growth of 2% this year, and 6% next year.
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In a year, Hikari managed to quadruple the unit count to 2, 000 by franchising.
Ryan Sidebottom was the pick of an impressive England bowling unit, taking 2-19 with no swing available.
The recording unit features a 2-inch LCD screen to view footage in the field, edit video and make exposure control adjustments.
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The unit's 2, 300 Marines will pack up their equipment and gear for the trip back to Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, aboard the USS Nassau, USS Austin and USS Tortuga, McSweeney said.
Furthermore, the unit's 900MHz x 2 high-performance dual-core chipset boosts the unit's image processing capacity so consumers can enjoy the highest picture quality and the fastest web-browsing speed.
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For 2011, total aircraft deliveries are seen up 13.6%, with aluminum usage per unit up 3.2%.
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Furthermore, unit labor costs increased 2.2% in the second quarter, possibly putting additional pressure on margins.
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Figure 2 shows unit demand growth and contraction trends for various HDD applications from 2008 projected through 2012.
The Google unit showed just under 2 billion video ads in December.
In the heavy truck market, the poundage of aluminum per unit has risen to 2, 150 pounds from 1, 709 pounds in 2006, he said.
Market research firm International Data Corp. now sees 2011 worldwide PC unit growth of just 2.8%, down from a previously forecast 4.2% rate.
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For Q1, ISI is forecasting 2% unit growth, down from 3%, with 12% growth in commercial PCs, but a 6% drop in consumer demand.
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The battery and car manufacturer, backed by United States billionaire Warren Buffett, plans to cut the workforce at the sales unit to 800 from 2, 600, according to a post from an unidentified laid-off employee on the Weibo.com microblogging site.
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