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THE TENNESSEAN, Fridoy, Aug. 9, 1974 N-Accident Insurance Extension Bill Backed private companies to pick up a greater share of the risk. The seanate adopted an amendment extending the insurance coverage to accidents connected with the theft of nuclear materials. 24 HOUR SERVICE Ftighl tovrtn approved for veteran training All Aircraft IFR qPP Air Ambulance ft Freignr Rental Uato Salet Harold Chnmhvr, mfir. Of the total, $110 million is provided by private insurance companies and the remainder by the federal government.

THE BILL approved yesterday is aimed at gradually lowering the federal portion as the number of power John 0. Pastore, sponsor of the bill, argued it would destroy the entire insurance program and "put every publicly owned reactor out of business." The federal program sets a limit of $560 million in indemnity for victims of any nuclear accident. vote and sent to a conference with the House, was approved after the Senate rejected an amendment that would have allowed states to require more insurance than provided under the federal program. Sen. Richard P.

Schweiker, offered the amendment. He said states with nuclear power plants in high-population areas should be allowed to require higher insurance protection than set by federal limits. THE AMENDMENT was defeated 60 to 28 after Sen. leaking Waterheater? We Will Replace II Today! with a LOCH INVAR Gat or Electric Waterheater. Call NASHVILLE APPLIANCE CENTER 242-3488 Don I be without Hoi Water Tonijhl rsm i atin FLYING SERVICE Tenn.

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Nuclear fuel was loaded into the No. 2 unit reactor in July and the tests will begin shortly, the TVA official said. LIKE THE first unit, which went into commercial operation at the north Alabama facility Aug. the No. 2 unit will generate of electricity.

"We began tests on the first unit last fall and they continued throughout this spring," the official said. "The tests for the second unit shouldn't take as long." The Browns Ferry plant will have three nuclear reactors capable of producing 3.456,000 kilowatts of power. The second unit is scheduled to go into commercial operation in 1975 and the third in 197C. Compromise Strip Mine Bill Begun WASHINGTON (AP) --Senate and House conferees have begin work on a compromise bill to impose national environmental stan-dards on strip coal mining. The conference committee must resolve a number of major differences between the strong bill passed last fall by the Senate and the somewhat milder measure approved by the House last month.

AT THEIR first meeting Wednesday, the conferees resolved a few minor differences but left most major ones until later. Rep. Morris K. Undall, leader of the House conferees, said he hoped to get noncontroversial issues out of the way as quickly as possible. Tentatively agreed upon Wednesday was a provision in the House version limiting the states that could receive federal grants for higher education in mining technology to those with "qualified" mining schools.

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