The plant's three reactors were idled in 1985 amid mounting worries over plant safety and management.
The plaintiffs contend that the plant safety systems were either switched off, malfunctioning or under repair.
G.M. intends to apply lessons from plant safety to health care, Mr. Bradley said.
This stack, called a flare, is an essential part of the plant safety system.
Even Governor Rowland referred to "layers of concrete" protecting the public when he reassured state residents about plant safety.
In the time since that accident, federal agencies have improved their coordination to identify potential risks in chemical plant safety.
The N.R.C. does not normally get involved in personnel or contract issues but has sometimes become concerned if labor relations are so poor that they threaten plant safety.
By Daniel Ford The New Yorker, October 25 , 1982P. 107 REPORTER AT LARGE about the inadequacies of nuclear plant safety.
Another day the White House is lecturing Congress not to spend a penny more for border security, nuclear power plant safety or bioterrorism.
This should, by all rights, be the year that Congress passes a tough chemical plant safety bill, protecting the public from one of the most serious terrorism vulnerabilities.
But food safety expert Tim Lang of Thames Valley university said the findings raised "fundamental questions" about poultry plant safety and the way the government checked the industry.
