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The Three Mile Island accident was a partial nuclear meltdown which occurred at the Three Mile Island power plant in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, United States on March 28, 1979. It was the worst accident in U.S.
Read More at Wikipedia ›Without fanfare, the nation's nuclear power regulators have overhauled community emergency planning for the first time in more than three decades, requiring fewer exercises for major accidents and recommending that fewer people be evacuated right away.
Nuclear watchdogs voiced surprise and dismay over the quietly adopted revamp — the first since the program began after Three Mile Island in 1979. Several said they were unaware of the changes until now, though they took effect in December.At least four years in the works, the changes appear to clash with more recent lessons of last year's reactor crisis in Japan. A mandate that local responders always run practice exercises for a radiation release has been eliminated — a move viewed as downright bizarre by some emergency planners.The Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the Federal Emergency Management Agency, which run the program together, have added one new exercise: More than a decade after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, state and community...
A look at how Japan's disaster compares to 1979 partial core meltdown at Pennsylvania's nuclear generating station
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Sen. Graham tours Oconee Nuclear Station in South Carolina
Sen. Mitch McConnell responds
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In the midst of a still struggling and fragile global economy, Germany has announced that it will shut down seven nuclear plants by the end of the year--which means ...
Three U.S. senators, alarmed by findings of an Associated Press investigation about aging problems at the nation's nuclear power plants, asked Thursday for a congres...
The U.S. government has adopted the first set of comprehensive changes in the emergency planning program for communities near nuclear power plants since its creation...
The nation's first new nuclear power plant in a generation won approval Thursday as federal regulators voted to grant a license for two new reactors at a site in eas...
Former Pennsylvania Gov. Dick Thornburgh weighs in
As U.S. officials fret over whether it's time once again to slam the brakes on U.S. nuclear energy, safety experts insist U.S. plants are secure -- and point to this...
A small amount of radiation has been detected in a reactor building at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in central Pennsylvania.About 150 employees were sen...
MIDDLETOWN, Pa. -- The 32nd anniversary of the partial meltdown at Three Mile Island is being marked at the plant with prayers for Japan .WGAL-TV reports about 30 pe...
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission is sending investigators to the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant after a small amount of radiation was detected there.Abo...
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