a malfunctioning valve set off what would become “the most serious accident in U.S. commercial nuclear power plant operating history.” The incident at the Three Mile Island nuclear power ...

The site took 14 years and $1 billion to clean up and, to date, Three Mile Island remains the worst nuclear accident in U.S. history. A sign announces the closing of the observation center for the ...

MARCH 28TH, 1979 46 YEARS AGO TODAY, THE WORST NUCLEAR ACCIDENT IN AMERICAN HISTORY HAPPENED RIGHT HERE IN THE SUSQUEHANNA VALLEY. THE UNIT TWO REACTOR THREE MILE ISLAND NUCLEAR PLANT IN DAUPHIN ...

An accident at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant March 28, 1979 near Harrisburg, Pa. damaged the reactor core and sent radioactive material into the atmosphere, the government said in an ...

DAUPHIN COUNTY, Pa. — Twin cooling towers still loom over the Susquehanna River, silent sentinels that have stood watch over Dauphin County for decades. To many residents, they're not just ...

DAUPHIN COUNTY, Pa. — On March 28 ,1979, the Unit 2 reactor on Three Mile Island went through a partial meltdown, marking the worst nuclear power accident in U.S. history. With Constellation ...

Stilp said Friday that even if an evacuation for a radiation-releasing accident could be properly ... s request to have the Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station formally renamed the ...

Activist Eric Epstein filed a petition opposing changing the name of Three Mile Island's Unit 1 to honor a former CEO of the plant's owner.

For many environmental activists, the thought of nuclear power sends them straight back to the partial meltdown at the Three Mile Island nuclear facility in Pennsylvania in 1979 or the Chernobyl ...

For many years, there has been no real debate about nuclear power in Denmark. Despite the surge after the oil crisis in the ...

An image of Three Mile Island, the notorious Pennsylvania nuclear power plant that suffered ... It’s like the difference in a car accident involving a semi truck and sedan, he says: “Both ...