Years before Reagan said it, the Three Mile Island incident showed us what needed to be done.
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Since the Three Mile Island disaster in 1979, it has become axiomatic to assume that complex systems fail in complex ways.
The original No Nukes concerts, held after the Three Mile Island accident, helped derail the growth of nuclear power in the United States.
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But then at 4:00 a.m. on Mar. 28, 1979 a cooling valve got stuck at the Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station's Unit 2.
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The Three Mile Island nuclear disaster, the medieval origins of primogeniture and evolutionary biology are all enlisted to shed light on different aspects of financial risk.
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And although a growing nationwide movement in favor of nuclear power exists, no new plants have been announced since the Three Mile Island nuclear accident in 1979.
There should be no doubt that tragic events in Japan will afford an unwasted crisis for avid nuclear power opponents, just as the Three Mile Island incident did in 1979.
The Standard Mortality Ratio for cancer in children dying before age ten rose in the period 6-10 years after the Three Mile Island and Chernobyl accidents in populations most exposed to fallout.
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Peter Bradford, a member of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission at the time of the Three Mile Island accident in Pennsylvania in 1979, said the accident exposes shortcomings in risk analysis as well as engineering.
The young NRC changed dramatically in response to the Three Mile Island incident and the need to make the NRC above the normal politics of the day as the long-term safety of the environment transcends the four-year political cycle.
In the wake of the Three Mile Island accident, the NRC was strengthened to withstand much of the political and industry pressure that existed prior to 1979, and has mandated reforms and requirements that have cost the industry plenty, more than any other energy sector.
Still, it would be foolish to ignore the possibility that the repercussions of the present crisis will be made much more far-reaching if it precipitates the sort of panic that took hold after the accident at the Three Mile Island nuclear facility in 1979 or the oil leak off Santa Barbara a decade earlier.
The 1979 Three Mile Island accident in the U.S. was a partial meltdown.
The 1979 Three Mile Island meltdown did not result in any measure-able uptick in thyroid cancer cases.
The government admitted that it is likely to raise the JCO Co. uranium-processing plant accident rating on an international scale to the same as that given the 1979 Three Mile Island nuclear-power plant catastrophe.
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In many ways, Japan's cleanup and restoration plans are more ambitious and challenging than those following the nuclear accidents at Three Mile Island in the U.S. and Chernobyl in the former Soviet Union.
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One rather unanticipated asset is that, unlike in the aftermath of Chernobyl and Three Mile Island, the public is not now clamoring for immediate cessation of nuclear power initiatives.
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The attempt by the Lt Governor of Pennsylvania to interfere in the control room of Three Mile Island, and which made the accident worse, was one of the drivers for a strong NRC.
The nuclear accident at Three Mile Island, for example, elevated the importance of environmental risk factors in the markets.
While the nuclear accidents at Three Mile Island and Chernobyl turned public opinion in the United States and Europe against nuclear energy, in France nuclear power never went out of fashion.
No new plants have been ordered there since the accident at Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania in 1979 (when radioactive gas escaped from a nuclear power plant), though some that were being built were completed.
The basic thing that happened at Three Mile Island is that the operators, due to the grossly flawed monitoring and control systems, misunderstood what the problem was and did exactly the wrong thing to correct it.
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The 1979 accident at Three Mile Island was much smaller in scale, and emitted far less radioactive material into the atmosphere.
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But uranium mining collapsed along with the price of uranium after accidents at Three Mile Island and Chernobyl and the cancelation of 100 planned reactors in the U.S. There are now only four productive uranium mines.
Bringing back the ghosts of Chernobyl and Three Mile Island, investors have decided to shun nuclear energy on fears that the current accident could put a stain on what appeared to be a booming trend in clean energy.
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Following the 1979 near meltdown of a reactor at Pennsylvania's Three Mile Island, the nuclear power industry suddenly had all the appeal of Dr. Strangelove in his doomsday bunker.
Following the 1979 near-meltdown of a reactor at Pennsylvania's Three Mile Island, the nuclear power industry suddenly had all the appeal of Dr. Strangelove in his doomsday bunker.
Then, just when miners thought there would be a commercial market from a proliferation of civilian power plant orders and plans, came the 1979 accident at Three Mile Island.
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