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    The Three Mile Island accident was a partial nuclear meltdown of the Unit 2 reactor (TMI-2) of the Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station on the...
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    Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station (commonly abbreviated as TMI) is a closed nuclear power plant on Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania on the...
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  • The effects of the 1979 Three Mile Island nuclear accident are widely agreed to be very low by scientists in the relevant fields. The American Nuclear...
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    Point in Buchanan, 30 miles from New York City. Most reactors began construction by 1974; following the Three Mile Island accident in 1979 and changing...
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    US$50,000 of property damage). The most serious of these was the Three Mile Island accident in 1979. Davis-Besse Nuclear Power Plant has been the source of...
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  • The inspiration for Perrow's books was the 1979 Three Mile Island accident, where a nuclear accident resulted from an unanticipated interaction of multiple...
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  • Radioactive: The Women of Three Mile Island is 2023 Documentary film about the 1979 Three Mile Island accident and its aftermath. The film is based on...
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    Hendrie worked at Brookhaven from 1955 to 1977. On March 28, 1979, the Three Mile Island nuclear plant, along the Susquehanna River located south of Harrisburg...
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  • to protect the tank. Perrow considered the Three Mile Island accident normal: It resembled other accidents in nuclear plants and in other high risk, complex...
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    the Three Mile Island Accident". United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Retrieved 1 December 2013. Walker, J. Samuel (2004). Three Mile Island: A...
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    accidents include the Fukushima nuclear disaster (2011), the Chernobyl disaster (1986), the Three Mile Island accident (1979), and the SL-1 accident (1961)...
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    Comparison of Chernobyl and other radioactivity releases (category Civilian nuclear power accidents)
    hypothetical release of 106Ru. Three Mile Island-2 was an accident of a completely different type from Chernobyl. However, both accidents have vague similarities...
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    approached $3.9B, including safety upgrades mandated after the Three Mile Island accident. On November 16, 2006, the operator applied to the Nuclear Regulatory...
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    dropped to 43%, slightly lower than it was immediately after the Three Mile Island accident in 1979, according to a CBS News poll. A survey conducted in April...
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    nuclear and radiation accidents by death toll List of articles about the Three Mile Island accident List of nuclear power accidents by country List of nuclear...
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  • beyond-design-basis accident. For this reason, some industry experts have criticized the use of design-basis terminology. The Three Mile Island accident and the Chernobyl...
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    S. government, as well those powering naval vessels. The 1979 Three Mile Island accident was a pivotal event that led to questions about U.S. nuclear safety...
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    The Kramatorsk radiological accident was a radiation accident that happened in Kramatorsk, Donetsk Oblast, in eastern Ukrainian SSR from 1980 to 1989...
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    "Backgrounder on the Three Mile Island Accident". NRC Web. Retrieved 2021-10-05. "Three Mile Island | TMI 2 |Three Mile Island Accident. - World Nuclear Association"...
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    The Three Mile Island accident was a core meltdown in Unit 2 (a pressurized water reactor manufactured by Babcock & Wilcox) of the Three Mile Island Nuclear...
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  • The China Syndrome (category Three Mile Island accident)
    theatrically released on March 16, 1979, twelve days before the Three Mile Island nuclear accident in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, which gave the film's subject...
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    Corium (nuclear reactor) (category Nuclear accidents and incidents)
    containment failure by direct containment heating (DCH). During the Three Mile Island accident, a slow partial meltdown of the reactor core occurred. About 41...
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    general emergency occurred in 1979 in Three Mile Island, as well other accidents in Chernobyl and Fukushima. The Three Mile nuclear power plant incident occurred...
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    S. News & World Report magazine. In 1979, Borger covered the Three Mile Island accident for Newsweek. Borger was born on September 22, 1952, in New Rochelle...
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    from the Three Mile Island nuclear reactor received an average of 800 BED of exposure to radiation during the 1979 Three Mile Island accident. The major...
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    difficulties and widespread public opposition, coming to a head with the Three Mile Island accident in 1979, and the Chernobyl disaster in 1986, both of which adversely...
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  • Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation played a key role in the Three Mile Island accident that occurred in Pennsylvania. The office's director at the time...
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  • nuclear issues The Cult of the Atom Three Mile Island: A Nuclear Crisis in Historical Perspective Three Mile Island accident health effects Robert Del Tredici...
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    radiation accident Goiânia accident, a similar accident in Brazil in 1987 Nuclear and radiation accidents and incidents Samut Prakan radiation accident List...
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