TMI 25 Years Later: The Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant Accident and Its Impact
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TMI 25 Years Later: The Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant Accident and Its Impact is a 2004 book which reviews the Three Mile Island accident
and its causes, and the subsequent cleanup process which lasted more than a decade. A section with photographs tells the visual story of the tremendous tasks facing engineers and technicians after the nuclear accident occurred.
Three Mile Island accident
The Three Mile Island accident was a core meltdown in Unit 2 of the Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania near Harrisburg, United States in 1979....
and its causes, and the subsequent cleanup process which lasted more than a decade. A section with photographs tells the visual story of the tremendous tasks facing engineers and technicians after the nuclear accident occurred.
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