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Three Mile Island: 'They Say Nothing Happened' - 0 views

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    "According to the TV program What Happened?, broadcast on NBC earlier this year (3/16/93), "the system worked" during the 1979 nu­clear accident at Three Mile Island (TMI). Although there were problems with "communication," the show re­ported, with the undamaged unit of TMI back in operation, most people in the area now live happily with the TMI facility. "Today in Harrisburg life goes on, the incident is now in the past and most peo­ple are comfortable that it could never be repeated," the narrator of the pro­gram, produced by Hearst Entertain­ment for NBC, declares. Then local resi­dent Debbie Baker says, "I'm not as afraid of it as I used to be." But that isn't all Baker said to the show's producers. "What they did was horrible," she told Extra!. "I can under­stand editing, but here the most crucial statements were edited out to make it look like everything was hunky dory." She said her full statement was that she is not as afraid since the Three Mile Island Citizens Monitoring Network, a group she works with, had set up an ex­tensive network of radiation monitors around the plant. Baker said that the crew from What Happened? was well aware that she remains extremely un­comfortable with TMI."
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SOLANCONEWS.com -- Public Input Sought For Three Mile Island Nuclear Plant License Rene... - 0 views

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    Nuclear Regulatory Commission staff is seeking public comments on its preliminary conclusion that there are no environmental impacts that would preclude renewal of the operating license for the Three Mile Island Nuclear Station, Unit 1 (TMI-1) in Middletown. As part of TMI-1's license renewal application, dated Jan. 8, AmerGen Energy Company, LLC, submitted an environmental report. The NRC staff reviewed the report and performed an on-site audit. The staff also considered comments made during the environmental scoping process, including comments offered at public meetings held May 1, 2007. Based on its review, the NRC staff has preliminarily determined that the environmental impacts of the license renewal for TMI-1 are not so great that they preclude license renewal. The draft supplemental environmental impact statement (EIS) is open for public comment until March 4, 2009, and will be the subject of two public meetings to be held on Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2009.
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Three Mile Island renewed for another 20 years - The York Daily Record - 0 views

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    Read the release that details how TMI will operate for an additional 20 years * Record Tracker blog: More on TMI's renewal, including links to documents. * York Town Square blog: Three Mile Island emergency indelibly written into memories. Thirty years after Three Mile Island Unit 2 suffered a partial meltdown, a federal agency has approved its sister reactor to operate for an additional 20 years. The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission renewed the operating license Thursday for TMI Unit 1 in Dauphin County. The new license will expire April 19, 2034. The reactor's original 40-year license was Read TMI's response to landing license renewal. set to run out April 19, 2014.
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    Read the release that details how TMI will operate for an additional 20 years * Record Tracker blog: More on TMI's renewal, including links to documents. * York Town Square blog: Three Mile Island emergency indelibly written into memories. Thirty years after Three Mile Island Unit 2 suffered a partial meltdown, a federal agency has approved its sister reactor to operate for an additional 20 years. The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission renewed the operating license Thursday for TMI Unit 1 in Dauphin County. The new license will expire April 19, 2034. The reactor's original 40-year license was Read TMI's response to landing license renewal. set to run out April 19, 2014.
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FR: NRC TMI GEIS license renewal - 0 views

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    Amergen Energy Company, LLC, Three Mile Island Nuclear Station, Unit 1; Notice of Availability of the Draft Supplement 37 to the Generic Environmental Impact Statement for License Renewal of Nuclear Plants, and Public Meeting for the License Renewal of Three Mile Island Nuclear Station, Unit 1 Notice is hereby given that the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC, Commission) has published a draft plant-specific supplement to the Generic Environmental Impact Statement for License Renewal of Nuclear Plants (GEIS), NUREG-1437, regarding the renewal of operating license DPR-50 for an additional 20 years of operation for Three Mile Island Nuclear Station, Unit 1 (TMI-1). TMI-1 is located in Londonderry Township in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, on the northern end of Three Mile Island near the eastern shore of the Susquehanna River. Possible alternatives to the proposed action (license renewal) include no action and reasonable alternative energy sources.
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New nuke plant cancer study brings back old TMI memories - The York Daily Record - 0 views

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    "York County residents aren't sure local nuclear facilities can be linked to cancer. When Teri Barnes, 39, moved to Goldsboro six years ago, she didn't give much thought to the large nuclear power plant just across the river. Three Mile Island is just something that's there, she said, like the tree in the front yard. But a new study requested by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to analyze data about cancer rates of residents around nuclear facilities could cause some residents of Goldsboro and communities around the country to think twice about their neighborhoods. Barnes said it would be hard to say for sure that the two were related. "Smoke causes cancer. Second-hand smoke causes cancer. Eating this causes cancer," Barnes said, gesturing toward the large deep fryer she was cleaning. "And if they do have cancer and they're dying, how can you make that up to them?" The study will look at both TMI and Peach Bottom Atomic Power Station. Although it won't deal with the partial meltdown at TMI in March of 1979, the issue brings back unpleasant memories for some residents. Following the accident, several studies were performed on cancer rates in the area with conflicting results."
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OpEdNews - Article: Still more fluff, lies and radiation from TMI and the new nuke medi... - 0 views

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    Yet another "perfectly safe" release at Three Mile Island has irradiated yet another puff of hype about alleged "green" support for new reactors. The two are inseparable. In 1979, when TMI's brand new Unit Two melted, stack monitors and other critical safeguards crashed in tandem. Nobody knows how much radiation escaped, where it went or who it harmed. Cancers, leukemia, stillbirths, malformations, asthma, sterility, skin lesions and other radiation-related diseases erupted throughout central Pennsylvania. Some 2400 families sued, but never got a full public hearing in federal court. Unit Two had operated just three months when it melted. By a 3-1 margin, three central Pennsylvania counties then voted that TMI-One, which opened in 1974, stay shut. But Ronald Reagan tore down that wall.
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    Yet another "perfectly safe" release at Three Mile Island has irradiated yet another puff of hype about alleged "green" support for new reactors. The two are inseparable. In 1979, when TMI's brand new Unit Two melted, stack monitors and other critical safeguards crashed in tandem. Nobody knows how much radiation escaped, where it went or who it harmed. Cancers, leukemia, stillbirths, malformations, asthma, sterility, skin lesions and other radiation-related diseases erupted throughout central Pennsylvania. Some 2400 families sued, but never got a full public hearing in federal court. Unit Two had operated just three months when it melted. By a 3-1 margin, three central Pennsylvania counties then voted that TMI-One, which opened in 1974, stay shut. But Ronald Reagan tore down that wall.
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TMI moves communications base 55 miles from plant - Central PA Local News | Midstate Pe... - 0 views

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    If there's ever another accident at TMI, the main source of information will be in Coatesville -- 55 miles away. That's where local reporters would have to go to speak to officials of the nuclear power plant near Middletown in Dauphin County. Plant owner AmerGen has merged the Susquehanna Twp. emergency communication center with one based in Coatesville, near the company's regional headquarters. That center serves two other plants.
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FR: NRC: TMI Exelon license - 0 views

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    In the Matter of AmerGen Energy Company, LLC; Exelon Generation Company, LLC (Three Mile Island Nuclear Station, Unit 1); Order Approving Transfer of License and Conforming Amendment I AmerGen Energy Company, LLC (AmerGen or licensee) is the holder of Facility Operating License No. DPR-50, which authorizes the possession, use, and operation of the Three Mile Island Nuclear Station, Unit 1 (TMI-1). AmerGen is a wholly owned subsidiary of Exelon Generation Company, LLC (EGC). The facility is located at the licensee's site in Dauphin County Pennsylvania.
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Questions for TMI's renewal - PennLive.com - 0 views

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    TMI-Alert Inc. sharply disagrees with the results of a recent poll paid for and released by Exelon on the relicensing of Three Mile Island. At issue are the questions that were not asked. The poll also failed to note that a majority of the folks who actually testified before the Nuclear Regulatory Commission were against extending the license of TMI-1.
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NRC: TMI-2 Lessons Learned Task Force Final Report (NUREG-0585) - 0 views

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    The following links on this page are to documents in our Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS). ADAMS documents are provided in either Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) or Tagged Image File Format (TIFF). To obtain free viewers for displaying these formats, see our Plugins, Viewers, and Other Tools. If you have problems with viewing or printing documents from ADAMS, please contact the Public Document Room staff. * NUREG-0585 (PDF - 3.53 MB) In its final report reviewing the Three Mile Island accident, the TMI-2 Lessons Learned Task Force has suggested change in several fundamental aspects of basic safety policy for nuclear power plants. Changes in nuclear power plant design and operations and in the regulatory process are discussed in terms of general goals. The appendix sets forth specific recommendations for reaching these goals.
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NRC takes up groundwater contamination issues - The York Daily Record - 0 views

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    Both TMI and Peach Bottom have faced tritium-related problems in the past. Tritium leaks discovered at two nuclear-powered plants across the nation have contributed to a review by U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission on how the federal agency may improve its approach in dealing with groundwater contamination. A weak radioactive isotope that occurs both naturally and during the operation of nuclear power plants, tritium is most commonly found in water, and it leaves the body quickly when ingested."
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bertell: 3 Mile Island Coverup - 0 views

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    "I feel that former President Jimmy Carter should come forth with all of the facts surrounding the Three Mile Island Accident, especially those which involved the radiation release and the dose to the public. This disclosure should, moreover, be in language which can be easily and correctly understood by the public, and not massaged to hide the truth. After the accident, for example, I found that the dose officially assigned to the public, was called: "measured dose to the public from the accident" - where "measured" meant it only included the dose after the rate matres were in place the third day after the accident began; "accident" meant that the radiation dose received during the same time period in 1978 when the TMI reactors were all operating and there was Chinese nuclear test fallout, could be subtracted.
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Experts Reflect On Three Mile Island, Nuclear Power - The Philadelphia Bulletin Archives - 0 views

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    As Pennsylvania approaches the 30th anniversary of Three Mile Island's (TMI) partial-core meltdown, the worst commercial nuclear accident in American history, experts gathered in Harrisburg yesterday to discuss nuclear power. They didn't spare it much criticism. Eric Epstein, chair of Three Mile Island Alert (TMIA), a group that advocates for alternatives to nuclear power before the state Public Utility Commission and other governmental bodies, said this technology's proponents understate its costs. Because of the promise public officials have seen in nuclear power, he said at a Commonwealth Foundation (CF) panel yesterday, more than 60 percent of all federal research subsidization of energy research went to nuclear analysis between 1950 and 1994. Some hoped nuclear power could shoulder America's energy burden so mush so that in the 1950s Atomic Energy Commission Chairman Louis Strauss said future generations might "enjoy in their homes electrical energy too cheap to meter." Some policymakers foresaw a day when Americans would even use nuclear energy to fuel their automobiles.
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Press and Journal: Photographer captured impact of TMI accident on community - 0 views

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    The Three Mile Island accident of 1979 changed the future of the nuclear industry, making the public more aware of the dangers of having a nuclear plant next door. The accident shattered a naïve sense of trust, and forced government officials and the industry to look more closely at security and safety issues. Robert Del Tredici, a Canadian photographer, artist and teacher, documented that pivotal time 30 years ago. His first book documented the people living around the Three Mile Island nuclear facility. Published in 1980, the book was part sociology and part critique of nuclear power. Since then, Del Tredici has gone on to publish other books on the nuclear industry, as well as teaching and working with government officials.
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The Free Press - Walter Cronkite, 3 Mile Island & "Lamar's Folly" in the Climate Bill - 0 views

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    The accolades are still pouring in for departed anchorman Walter Cronkite. Few mention his critical "that's the way it is" reporting on the atomic melt-down at Three Mile Island. Yet Cronkite and TMI are at the core of today's de facto moratorium on new reactor construction---which the industry's new champion, Senator Lamar Alexander, now wants to reverse through the proposed federal Climate Bill. Technicians who knew what was happening shook with terror as Cronkite opened his March 28, 1979, newscast with "the world has never known a day quite like today. It faced the considerable uncertainties and dangers of the worst nuclear power plant accident of the Atomic Age. And the horror tonight is that it could get much worse.." ( http://www.examiner.com/x-14272-70s-Culture-Examiner~y2009m7d18-Walter-Cronkite-reporting-on-Three-Mile-Island ) .
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Three Mile Island, the NRC and Obama - 0 views

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    It was thirty years ago this week that the Unit 2 reactor of the Three Mile Island (TMI) nuclear power plant began a partial meltdown. As its fuel rods began to burn out of control, a hydrogen bubble formed, causing a small explosion. Christian Parenti: Thirty years after the Three Mile Island partial meltdown, the real nuclear power threat is the relicensing of old plants. During the accident, plant operators were myopically glued to their instruments, which were incorrectly indicating that a crucial pressure valve was closed. In fact, it was open and draining coolant from the plant's core, thus causing it to burn out of control. When the shift changed, someone on the new crew had the presence of mind to check the temperature on the reactor's effluent pipe. It was way too hot. That meant the crucial pressure valve--which read "closed" on the monitors--was actually wide open. The crisis was eventually brought under control. How narrow the margin of error. That accident was bad--43,000 curies of krypton radiation were released--but it could have been catastrophic.
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LancasterOnline.com:News:Nuclear's comeback isn't cheered by all - 0 views

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    The nuclear accident at Three Mile Island was "a really hard, cold slap in the face for the industry" and a call to increased safety. That's the feeling of Tom Kauffman of the Washington, D.C.-based Nuclear Energy Institute, a policy group that promotes the benefits of nuclear energy. Kauffman, who in 1979 was an operator at TMI, spoke with reporters recently to discuss the 30th anniversary of the accident, its effect on the industry, lessons learned and nuclear power's future.
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PhillyBurbs.com:  Vivid memories of TMI for Bucks residents - 0 views

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    Sharon Pfeiffer remembers March 28, 1979, like it was yesterday. So does her husband, Ron. The couple now lives in Horsham, but on that day, had a home in Palmyra, Pa., near Three Mile Island, a nuclear power plant near Harrisburg, which had the worst nuclear accident in United States history 30 years ago Saturday. The main water pumps in Reactor 2 failed at the plant, along the Susquehanna River. The reactor core melted down, but the containment walls did their job, according to news accounts at the time. "I have very vivid memories of that day. My husband was at work and I had just dropped off our daughter, who was then 6 years old, who had a field trip to, of all places, the airport, which was right next to Three Mile Island," Sharon Pfeiffer said.
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The Free Press - Cracking the corporate media's Iron Curtain around death at Three Mil... - 0 views

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    Chernobyl exploded and Three Mile Island missed by a whisker. They both killed people. But thirty years after the Pennsylvania melt-down, a Soviet-style Iron Curtain has formed between the corporate media and the alternatives, with nuclear power at its center. The Soviets denied for days that the Chernobyl accident had happened at all. America's parallel corporate media says "no one died at TMI."
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Documenting Three Mile Island | Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists - 0 views

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    # Starting as the NRC's historian in June 1979, J. Samuel Walker's career was very much shaped by the TMI accident. # He found false information spread on the accident, which he hoped his book would correct. # Although the industry has improved its safety record, more recent problems prove the accident's lessons must never be forgotten.
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