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  2. Three Mile Island accident - Wikipedia

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    The Three Mile Island accident plays a pivotal role in Heat and Light, a 2016 novel by Jennifer Haigh. [157] Meltdown: Three Mile Island is a four-part docuseries released by Netflix on May 4, 2022. [158] The documentary recounts the events, controversies, and lingering effects of the accident. [159]

  3. Three Mile Island accident health effects - Wikipedia

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    The effects included "metallic taste, erythema, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, hair loss, deaths of pets, farm and wild animals, and damage to plants." [16] Some local statistics showed dramatic one-year changes among the most vulnerable: "in Dauphin County, where the Three Mile Island plant is located, the 1979 death rate among infants under one ...

  4. Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station - Wikipedia

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    Three Mile Island Unit 1. The Three Mile Island Unit 1 is a pressurized water reactor designed by Babcock & Wilcox with a net generating capacity of 819 MW e. The initial construction cost for TMI-1 was US$400 million, equal to $2.47 billion in 2018 dollars. [30] Unit 1 first came online on April 19, 1974, and began commercial operations on ...

  5. Three Mile Island, the site of 1979 nuclear accident, to ...

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    See photos of Three Mile Island in 1979: Exelon Corp, the U.S. power company that owns the Middletown, Pennsylvania, power plant said it will close by Sept. 30, 2019. Three Mile Island employs ...

  6. Three Mile Island, site of 1979 nuclear accident, to ... - AOL

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    Exelon said it will take a one-time charge of $65-110 million for 2017 for the early retirement of Three Mile Island, and accelerate about $1.0-1.1 billion in depreciation and amortization through ...

  7. Nuclear meltdown - Wikipedia

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    The Three Mile Island accident was a compounded group of emergencies that led to core damage. What led to this was an erroneous decision by operators to shut down the ECCS during an emergency condition due to gauge readings that were either incorrect or misinterpreted; this caused another emergency condition that, several hours after the fact ...

  8. Nuclear and radiation accidents and incidents - Wikipedia

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    Serious nuclear power plant accidents include the Fukushima nuclear disaster (2011), the Chernobyl disaster (1986), the Three Mile Island accident (1979), and the SL-1 accident (1961). [ 11] Nuclear power accidents can involve loss of life and large monetary costs for remediation work.

  9. International Nuclear Event Scale - Wikipedia

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    Three Mile Island accident near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania (United States), 28 March 1979. [18] A combination of design and operator errors caused a gradual loss of coolant, leading to a partial meltdown. The amounts of radioactive gases released into the atmosphere are still not known, so injuries and illnesses that have been attributed to this ...