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March 28th,1979 Partial core meltdown at Three Mile Island nuclear power plant (USA) A series of equipment problems and worker errors turned a routine incident at the Three Mile Island Unit 2 plant outside Harrisburg, Pennsylvania into a full-fledged disaster. The reactor core suffered a partial meltdown and released more than 10 million curies of radioactivity into the atmosphere. Nearly 150,000 people left their homes near the facility and did not return until the situation stabilized days later. http://www.ucsusa.org/clean_energy/nuclear_safety/page.cfm?pageID=183 |
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March 28th,1979 Risk of hydrogen explosion. Three Mile Island, USA - Dangerous gas bubble formed. Risk of hydrogen explosion. Some vital instruments were exposed to more radiation than they were designed to withstand. Reactor is so highly radioactive it may never reopen. Radioactivity in reactor building is 100 times lethal level. Three Mile Island accident had 150 precedents...150 valve failures in similar reactors, a US Government official told the US Senate. (Daily News May 1, 1979) |
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March 28th,1980 Calvert Cliff, MD., U.S.A. Radioactive gas leaked for five minutes from a waste gas storage tank at Calvert Cliff Nuclear Power Plant. 55 employees were evacuated from the plant for 45 minutes. ("Los Angeles Times", 28th March 1980; W.I.S.E. Ibid) |
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