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  2. Three Mile Island accident - Wikipedia

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    March 25, 1999 [ 1] 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 Susquehanna River in Londonderry Township, near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. The reactor accident began at 4:00 a.m. on March 28, 1979, and released radioactive gases and ...

  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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    May 30 (Reuters) - Pennsylvania's Three Mile Island power plant will close in 2019, 40 years after the worst nuclear accident in U.S. history, as low natural gas prices make the costs of atomic ...

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

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    May 30 (Reuters) - Pennsylvania's Three Mile Island power plant will close in 2019, forty years after it was the site of the worst nuclear accident in U.S. history, as low natural gas prices make ...

  7. Nuclear reactor accidents in the United States - Wikipedia

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    In the U.S., at least 56 nuclear reactor accidents have occurred.[2] The most serious of these U.S. accidents was the Three Mile Island accidentin 1979. According to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the Davis–Besse Nuclear Power Stationhas been the source of two of the top five most dangerous nuclear incidents in the United Statessince 1979.

  8. List of nuclear and radiation accidents by death toll - Wikipedia

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    [3] [4] More recent academic research carried out in 2007 estimated that 100 to 240 deaths were caused by the radiation leak. [5] [6] [7] 1 (disputed) Fukushima nuclear disaster: 2011 March In 2018, 1 cancer death of a man who worked at the plant at the time of the accident was attributed to radiation exposure by a Japanese government panel.

  9. Fukushima nuclear accident casualties - Wikipedia

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    The Tōhoku earthquake and tsunamikilled over 15,000 people from effects unrelated to the destruction of the reactors at Fukushima. Summary of events. [edit] The plantcomprises six separate boiling water reactorsoriginally designed by General Electric(GE), and maintained by the Tokyo Electric Power Company(TEPCO).