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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 ...
Three Mile Island in 2019, prior to shutdown. Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station (commonly abbreviated as TMI) is a shutdown nuclear power plant on Three Mile Island [a] in Pennsylvania on the Susquehanna River just south of Harrisburg. It has two separate units, TMI-1 (owned by Constellation Energy) and TMI-2 (owned by EnergySolutions).
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.
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 ...
Exelon said it will take a one-time charge of $65-110 million for 2017 for the early retirement of Three Mile Island, and accelerate about $1.0-1.1 billion in depreciation and amortization through ...
Three Mile Island accident near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania (United States), 28 March 1979. [18] A combination of design and operator errors caused a gradual loss of coolant, leading to a partial meltdown. The amounts of radioactive gases released into the atmosphere are still unknown, so injuries and illnesses that have been attributed to this ...
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 ...