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The reactor vessel head (top) was removed. October 1985: Defueling began. July 1986: The off-site shipment of reactor core debris began. August 1988: GPU submitted a request for a proposal to amend the TMI-2 license to a "possession-only" license and to allow the facility to enter long-term monitoring storage. January 1990: Defueling was ...
Üsküdar – A small passenger ferry sank due to heavy lodos weather in the Gulf of İzmit on 1 March. 272 passengers including seven crew died; 39 people survived. 272. 1994. Kenya. Likoni Ferry – On 29 April the overloaded passenger ferry Mtongwe One capsized and sank killing 272 people of the more than 300 aboard.
The death certificates of those who fell state the cause of death was "blunt trauma" due to homicide. [ 151 ] The discrepancy in the number of falling victims per tower is partly attributable to the differences in each impact as well as Flight 11's impact leaving considerably more victims trapped on a far fewer number of floors.
Topsail Island (/ ˈtɑːpsɪl /, TOP-sill) is a 26-mile (41.8 km) long barrier island off the coast of North Carolina, roughly equidistant between the barrier islands of the Crystal Coast and the beaches of the Cape Fear region, lying south of Jacksonville, North Carolina and Camp Lejeune. The northeastern edge of the island is the New River ...
The original MARPOL was signed on 17 February 1973, but did not come into force at the signing date. The current convention is a combination of 1973 Convention and the 1978 Protocol, [3] which entered into force on 2 October,1983. As of January 2018, 156 states are parties to the convention, being flag states of 99.42% of the world's shipping ...
This list of United States disasters by death toll includes disasters that occurred either in the United States, at diplomatic missions of the United States, or incidents outside of the United States in which a number of U.S. citizens were killed. Domestic deaths due to war in America are included except the American Civil War.
The death toll has been put at between 1,490 and 1,635 people. [234] The tables below use figures from the British Board of Trade report on the disaster. [ 108 ] While the use of the Marconi wireless system did not achieve the result of bringing a rescue ship to Titanic before it sank, the use of wireless did bring Carpathia in time to rescue ...
SEARCH Inc., an archaeology organization, handled the excavation with the Florida Department of Transportation. SEARCH archaeologists dated the shipwreck to the mid- to late-1800s, officials said ...