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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 Society concluded that average local radiation exposure was equivalent to a chest X-ray and maximum local exposure equivalent to less than a year's background radiation. [1]
The Three Mile Island accident plays a pivotal role in Heat and Light, a 2016 novel by Jennifer Haigh. [160] Meltdown: Three Mile Island is a four-part docuseries released by Netflix on May 4, 2022. [161] The documentary recounts the events, controversies, and lingering effects of the accident. [162]
Cover of the first edition. Biology Today is a college-level biology textbook that went through three editions in 1972, 1975, and 1980. The first edition, published by Communications Research Machines, Inc. (CRM) and written by a small editorial team and large set of prominent "contributing consultants", is notable for its lavish illustrations and its humanistic approach.
Three Mile Island employs about 675 people, produces enough electricity to power 800,000 homes and pays more than $1 million in state property taxes a year, the company said.
In 1979, the Three Mile Island nuclear plant came to embody Americans’ fears about atomic energy, after one of its two reactors partially melted down in what became the worst accident in the U.S ...
An examination room in a typical doctor's office. Note the examination table, a key feature of almost all such rooms worldwide. A doctor's office in American English, a doctor's surgery in British English, or a doctor's practice, is a medical facility in which one or more medical doctors, usually general practitioners (GP), receive and treat patients.
The Three Mile Island nuclear plant could return to service in 2028. Jonathan Ernst/Reuters Three Mile Island, the site of one of the US's worst nuclear disasters, may soon reopen.
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 $2.55 billion in 2018 dollars. [31] Unit 1 first came online on April 19, 1974, and began commercial operations on September 2, 1974. [32]