Three Mile Island: Thirty Minutes to Meltdown
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Three Mile Island: Thirty Minutes to Meltdown is a 1982 book by Daniel Ford. Ford presents a "meticulous post-mortem of the events that nearly led to a meltdown" at the Metropolitan Edison station near Harrisburg in March 1979. He analyses the complex of people, technology, customs and regulations involved. Ford identifies regulatory failure and industry cost-cutting as the underlying causes of the Three Mile Island accident
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Daniel Ford is an economist and former director of the Union of Concerned Scientists
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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....
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Daniel Ford is an economist and former director of the Union of Concerned Scientists
Union of Concerned Scientists
The Union of Concerned Scientists is a nonprofit science advocacy group based in the United States. The UCS membership includes many private citizens in addition to professional scientists. James J...
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See also
- List of books about nuclear issues
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- Three Mile Island: A Nuclear Crisis in Historical Perspective
- TMI 25 Years Later: The Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant Accident and Its ImpactTMI 25 Years Later: The Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant Accident and Its ImpactTMI 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...
- Robert Del TrediciRobert Del TrediciRobert Del Tredici is a Canadian photographer, artist and teacher, who documented the impact of the 1979 Three Mile Island accident on the community. His first book of photographs and interviews, The People of Three Mile Island , was a sociological critique of nuclear power...
- Three Mile Island accident health effectsThree Mile Island accident health effectsThe health effects of the 1979 Three Mile Island nuclear accident are widely, but not universally, agreed to be very low level. According to the official radiation release figures, average local radiation exposure was equivalent to a chest X-ray, and maximum local exposure equivalent to less than a...