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The Next Nuclear Bailout: Cleaning Up Pennsylvania’s Nuclear Power Plants

By Eric Epstein

Three Mile Island Alert, Inc. (TMIA) has been actively involved with issues pertaining to nuclear decommissioning since the March 1979 accident at Three Mile Island (TMI) Unit-2. Specifically, We've asked: Who should pay the cost of nuclear decommissioning and radioactive waste management?

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1979 Accident

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By webEditor at Mon, 01/12/2009 - 18:19

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25 years after the accident, here's what was said

Just because a quarter-century has passed since the accident at Three Mile Island doesn't mean we should shut up about it.

SARA KELLY, Philadelphia Weekly, March 3, 2004

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1979 Accident

By TMIA at Mon, 01/12/2009 - 14:30

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"It was the first step in a nuclear nightmare..."

The CBS Evening News began with these words
from Walter Cronkite on March 28, 1979

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1979 Accident

By TMIA at Mon, 01/12/2009 - 14:07

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Chart of Radioactive Plume

This radioactive plume measured via aerial surveillance on March 31, 1979 shows just how narrow the path of radiation travel can be. Releases passing between the stationary ground-based monitors went undetected in 1979. The narrow plume path also explains why health effects can be found in one neighborhood and not another.

As charted by the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory

By TMIA at Mon, 01/12/2009 - 13:58

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Three Mile Island Witness Testimonials

The following three testimonials are from “Three Mile Island: The People’s Testament,” (1989), a series of interviews with approximately 250 Three Mile Island (TMI) area residents from 1979 to 1988 done by Katagiri Mitsuru, Professor of Social Psychology at Kyoto Seika University and Aileen M. Smith, free-lance journalist and co-author of the book Minamata.

Marie Holowka, Farmer, Zion’s View, PA

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1979 Accident

By TMIA at Mon, 01/12/2009 - 12:44