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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 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 radioactive iodine into the ...
Ixtoc I oil spill. / 19.408333; -92.325. Ixtoc 1 was an exploratory oil well being drilled by the semi-submersible drilling rig Sedco 135 in the Bay of Campeche of the Gulf of Mexico, about 100 km (62 mi) northwest of Ciudad del Carmen, Campeche in waters 50 m (164 ft) deep. [ 2] On 3 June 1979, the well suffered a blowout resulting in the ...
On July 5, BP announced that its one-day oil recovery effort accounted for 24,980 barrels (3,972 m 3) of oil, and the flaring off of 57.1 million cubic feet (1,620,000 m 3) of natural gas. The total oil collection to date for the spill was estimated at 657,300 barrels (104,500 m 3). [23]
The U.S. Gulf of Mexico accounts for the majority of U.S. offshore oil production, and produces roughly 1.8 million barrels per day of oil, according to the last government figures, about 14% of ...
Aliso Canyon SS 25 wellhead, December 17, 2015. Note subsidence craters at center, apparently from the attempts to plug the leaking well. The Aliso Canyon gas leak (also called Porter Ranch gas leak [1] and Porter Ranch gas blowout [2]) was a massive methane leak in the Santa Susana Mountains near the neighborhood of Porter Ranch in the city of Los Angeles, California.
June 11 – Flow Rate Technical Group says the leak could be 20,000 to 40,000 barrels (840,000 to 1,680,000 US gallons; 3,200,000 to 6,400,000 litres) of oil a day. [ 94] June 15 – Obama in the first speech from the Oval Office of his presidency focuses on the spill. [ 95] June 16 – Obama meets with Svanberg, Hayward, McKay.
It is a cylindrical valve with either a ball or flapper closing mechanism. It is installed in the production tubing and is held in the open position by a high-pressure hydraulic line from surface contained in a 6.35 mm (1/4") control line that is attached to the DHSV's hydraulic chamber and terminated at surface to a hydraulic actuator. The ...
The life expectancy for those with silicosis is reduced by about 11 years, and the chances of surviving at least 15 years after a lung transplant are less than 11%, according to the Centers for ...