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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]
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]
Three Mile Island from Goldsboro, Pennsylvania in 2013 Three Mile Island from Middletown, Pennsylvania in 2014 September 2019 photo of Three Mile Island and the Exelon training center and simulator building (left). On November 21, 2009, a release of radioactivity occurred inside the containment building of TMI-1 while workers were cutting pipes.
The Unit 1 reactor on Three Mile Island, which closed in 2019, is adjacent to the Unit 2 reactor that experienced a major nuclear power accident in 1979
Three Mile Island's Unit 2 reactor shut down after an infamous partial meltdown in 1979, but the Unit 1 reactor kept going until 2019. MediaNews Group/Reading Eagle via Getty Images
Giant cooling towers at Constellation Energy's Three Mile Island nuclear plant in Pennsylvania have sat dormant for so long that grass has sprung up in the towers' hollowed-out bases and wildlife ...
The main cause of the release of radioactivity in the Three Mile Island accident was a pilot-operated relief valve on the primary loop which stuck in the open position. This caused the overflow tank into which it drained to rupture and release large amounts of radioactive cooling water into the containment building .
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.