Backgrounder on the three mile island accident nrc. The three mile island accident a nuclear power plant accident at the three mile island nuclear generating station. According to decommissioning fund statements filed by exelon corp. Occurred in 1979 beside the susquehanna river in dauphin county, pennsylvania.
The three mile island unit 2 reactor, near middletown, pa. Neil sheehan public affairs officer region i something happened last week at the vermont yankee nuclear power plant that might not merit headline news but is nonetheless worth highlighting. Lessons learned from the three mile islandunit 2 advisory panel. Its aftermath brought about sweeping changes involving emergency response planning, reactor operator training, human factors engineering, radiation. A reevaluation of cancer incidence near the three mile island nuclear plant. Reaktorunfall im kernkraftwerk three mile island wikipedia. Three mile island unit 2 tmi2 plant decommissioning. Reactor decommissioning list three mile island unit 2 tmi2. It operated from december 1978 to march 1979 when a partial meltdown occurred. En marco island, donde irma toco tierra por segunda vez tras pasar por. The 25th anniversary of the three mile island tmi nuclear accident is a fitting opportunity to renew the recommendation that narrowly missed being approved by the carterappointed tmi commission a quarter of a century ago, namely, the request to phase out the nuclear power industry.
The three mile island accident was a partial meltdown of reactor number 2 of three mile island. The lights were turned off for the last time in the nrcs resident inspector office at the site as is well known by now, vermont yankee permanently ceased operations last december, bringing to a halt. Three others were injured in the threevehicle accident on a slick highway about 150 miles west of omaha. Todays discussion a quick refresher on the tmi accident consequences and their costs the obvious direct consequences, and the less obvious indirect ones. Three mile island unit 2 tmi2 revised 7 october 2015. Three mile island, the nuclear legacy, and national security by albert j. Three mile island the tmi2 accident consequences and costs jack devine nea workshop, paris, may 20. The lights were turned off for the last time in the nrcs resident inspector office at the site. As recent as supporting siempelkamp nuclear services inc in the design and fabrication of segmentation equipment for the zion reactor vessel segmentation and decommissioning project, we have worked on several nuclear reactor decommissioning projects. Tres muertos y varios heridos en choque en nueva york. It had a generating capacity of 792 mwe and 2772 mwt. Purcell, and mary byrd davis update to this text available now june 11, 2006 critical hour.