Three Mile Island Nuclear Disaster Archive of Documents
Three Mile Island, Nuclear
From Max Rambod Inc, Woodland Hills, CA, U.S.A.
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AbeBooks Seller since February 5, 2021
From Max Rambod Inc, Woodland Hills, CA, U.S.A.
Seller rating 4 out of 5 stars
AbeBooks Seller since February 5, 2021
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Three Mile Island Nuclear Disaster Archive of 8 pamphlets, documents, and assorted ephemera, mainly from the surrounding areas such as Harrisburg. 1980-85.Includes four documents, mainly newsletters, from the Three Mile Island Alert, a not-for-profit citizens' organization dedicated to promotion of safe-energy alternatives to nuclear power, dated 1980 and 1985. Two "Emergency Information" pamphlets, produced by the Dauphin County Emergency Management Agency and Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency, give nearby residents crucial information regarding nuclear reactor disasters and potential radioactive fallout. The larger pamphlet folds out into a November 1981 22" x 15" evacuation plan map for the area surrounding Three Mile Island, highlighting viable escape routes, traffic consolidation points, and municipal and county boundaries. A 1983 document originates from the Public Forum on Nuclear Power at the Middletown Capitol Campus of Penn State University. It is a program of three days of talks on topics such as "Concerns Related to Nuclear Operations", "Health Effects of Low-Level Radiation Exposures", "Problems in Occupational Exposures to Radiation," "Expert Credibility and Public Concerns", and "Planning for Nuclear Emergencies". The last document is a legal notice from the United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania of class action and proposed $25,000,000 settlement relating to the Three Mile Island accident. Several of these belonged to a Robert Fox of Hummelstown, PA. The Three Mile Island accident was a partial nuclear meltdown of the Unit 2 reactor (TMI-2) of the Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station on the Susquehanna River in Londonderry Township, near Harrisbur. The reactor accident began at 4:00 a.m. on March 28, 1979, and released radioactive gases and radioactive iodine into the environment. It is the worst accident in U.S. commercial nuclear power plant history. On the seven-point logarithmic International Nuclear Event Scale, the TMI-2 reactor accident is rated Level 5, an "Accident with Wider Consequences". The accident crystallized anti-nuclear safety concerns among the general public and led to new regulations for the nuclear industry. It accelerated the decline of efforts to build new reactors.[10] Anti-nuclear movement activists expressed worries about regional health effects from the accident. Archive exhibits contemporary attitudes regarding nuclear power in the proximate vicinity and time frame to the Three Mile Island disaster. In very good condition overall. Seller Inventory # 20741
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