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Three Mile Island

Nuclear Meltdown Lessons Learned from Three Mile Island

In 1979 there was a partial core meltdown at Pennsylvania’s Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station. Following a non-nuclear secondary system failure, a pilot-operated relief valve was stuck open allowing large amounts of nuclear reactor coolant to escape. In the end, the reactor was controlled, but the image of nuclear power as the future energy […]

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Three Mile Island Retrospective

Three Mile Island, 30 Years Ago

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