And according to nuclear experts, the situation in Japan is much similar to Three Mile Island.
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For many, the term nuclear power still calls to mind Three Mile Island and Chernobyl.
March 1979: Reactor meltdown at Three Mile Island, PA. 140, 000 people evacuated.
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That said, Fukushima is already worse than Three Mile Island and closer to the awful Chernobyl accident.
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The 1979 Three Mile Island meltdown did not result in any measure-able uptick in thyroid cancer cases.
Years before Reagan said it, the Three Mile Island incident showed us what needed to be done.
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What is known is that this is a situation very different than Chernobyl or Three Mile Island.
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The BP gulf oil disaster will become the three mile island debacle for the offshore oil and gas industry.
The 1979 U.S. meltdown at Three Mile Island is also rated a five.
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The 1979 Three Mile Island accident in the U.S. was a partial meltdown.
The nuclear accident at Three Mile Island, for example, elevated the importance of environmental risk factors in the markets.
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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Since the Three Mile Island disaster in 1979, it has become axiomatic to assume that complex systems fail in complex ways.
For a while, most people near Three Mile Island expected the plant would close in 2014, when its original license expires.
Accidents at Three Mile Island in 1979 and Chernobyl in 1986 were pivotal events in the history of nuclear power plants.
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The reactor buildings and equipment at Fukushima Daiichi also are damaged and leaking radioactive water, something that didn't happen at Three Mile Island.
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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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Sweden has been talking about it since the 1970s, while the U.S. has never forgotten Three Mile Island, nuclear plants are still running today.
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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.
Considering that at least one person, a worker in the reactor, has died so far, this incident appears to be worse than Three Mile Island.
There was a small release of radioactive steam at Three Mile Island in 1979, and there have also been a few releases at Fukushima Daiichi.
Indeed, not since Three Mile Island has the American nuclear industry suffered a greater setback to its image and credibility than that delivered by Spokesman Boucher.
To find out why start by watching the movie "The China Syndrome, " which came out in the 1970s immediately before the Three Mile Island nuclear incident.
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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The 825-megawatt pressurized water reactor at Three Mile Island, about 10 miles outside Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, has been in service since 1974 and can power about 800, 000 homes.
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To be sure, the recent Fukushima meltdown, like Chernobyl and Three Mile Island before it, was a serious industrial accident that will be costly to clean up.
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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.
After Three Mile Island, which was a different kind of set of facts than what we are now presented with, we went to school on that situation.
Most things that have been written on Three Mile Island describe the incident itself pretty accurately, and, as one might expect blame was fully assigned and fully denied.
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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.
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