Three mile island

Three Mile Island was a core of the fuser part 2 (one pressurized water reactor manufactured by Babcock & Wilcox) of Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, near Harrisburg in 1979. The plant is owned and operated by the public and Metropolitan Edison Company was the biggest disaster in the history of American industry in the commercial production of nuclear electricity, causing the release of up to 481 PBq (13 million curies) of radioactive waste gases, but less than 740 GBq (20 curies) of the dangerous, especially iodine-131. The Kemeny Commission report concluded that "no cases of cancer or the number of cases is so small that it will never detected.At wee hours cooling system non-nuclear burst and could not.

Mechanical failures were compounded by the initial failure of plant operators to recognize the situation as a loss of coolant accident due to insufficient training and human factors such as industrial design errors related to the control room ambiguous indicators in the UI installation. When the water system for cooling the reactor began to empty. Therefore, in the heart of the partial melting of the reactor down.After encountered a problem that seemed to lead to another. A valve stuck and operators made a number of errors. In addition, there were flaws in the design and faulty sensors. The scope and complexity of the accident revealed for five days, employees of the Metropolitan Edison met Ed, the utility plant operation.Three Mile Island plant, nuclear power has only 12 days after the movie The China Syndrome A terrifying story of the fall of nuclear power to help stop the U.S. nuclear industry to die on the track.

Around four o'clock, March 28, 1979, reactor 2 at Three Mile Island near Harrisburg, nuclear energy, Pennsylvania, had a serious problem. At that time, early in the morning its cooling system non-nuclear burst and failed.Several epidemiological studies in the years following the accident supported the conclusion that the accident released radiation had no significant effect on the incidence of cancer in residents near the plant, but results were contested by a team at the plant was researchers.The owned and operated by the public and Metropolitan Edison Company was the biggest disaster in history U.S. commercial nuclear power plants.

Three mile island