28 March 1979

Disaster & Disease

Three Mile Island accident

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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, located on the Susquehanna River in Londonderry Township, Dauphin County near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. The reactor accident began at 4:00 a.m. on March 28, 1979, and released radioactive gases and radioactive iodine into the environment.

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Graphic TMI-2 Core End-State ConfigurationGraphic_TMI-2_Core_End-State_Configuration.jpg : NRC derivative work: Das steinerne Herz ( talk )Public domainWikimedia Commons
Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station Unit 2Z22CC BY-SA 3.0Wikimedia Commons
"We Survived TMI" sign in Middletown, Pennsylvania - NARA - 540037UnknownPublic domainWikimedia Commons
(Environmental Protection Agency) TLD's. Goldsboro, Pennsylvania - NARA - 540032UnknownPublic domainWikimedia Commons
Checking hand for contamination - NARA - 540036UnknownPublic domainWikimedia Commons
Control room Number 2. Nuclear Regulatory Commission inspector looking at meters. - NARA - 540034UnknownPublic domainWikimedia Commons
Control room operatorsJohn G. Kemeny et alPublic domainWikimedia Commons
Cooling towers of Three Mile Island Unit 2Z22CC BY-SA 3.0Wikimedia Commons
Cover of the 1979 report of the President’s Commission on the Accident at Three Mile IslandPogono82CC BY-SA 4.0Wikimedia Commons
Three Mile Island accident of 1979 knowledge management digest : recovery and cleanupUnknownUnknown — LoC, rights unverifiedLibrary of Congress
What we'd like is about a twenty-mile island"UnknownUnknown — LoC, rights unverifiedLibrary of Congress

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