Sentences with phrase «island nuclear meltdown»

The Three Mile Island nuclear meltdown in 1979 forced the utility companies General Public Utility and Metropolitan Edison to pay out millions of dollars in settlements to area residents

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The Fukushima cleanup operation is likely to resemble the protracted cleanup at the Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station in Pennsylvania, where one reactor experienced a partial meltdown in 1979.

Technology showed its dark side in March 1979 as the Three Mile Island power plant suffered a severe core meltdown, the nation's most serious commercial nuclear accident.

Lake Barrett — director of the Three Mile Island nuclear plant during its decommissioning after a partial meltdown at the Middletown, Pa., facility in 1979 — says TEPCO will use robots to remotely dig out the melted fuel and store it in canisters on - site before shipping to its final disposal spot.

Nuclear power fell into a long funk after the partial core meltdown at the Three Mile Island reactor in Pennsylvania in 1979.

The Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania went into partial meltdown after someone spilled a cup of water.

Fortunately, there has not been a catastrophic nuclear accident in the United States, and no partial core meltdown accident since Three Mile Island in March 1979.

Penn State College of Medicine researchers have shown, for the first time, a possible correlation between the partial meltdown of the Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station and thyroid cancers in the counties surrounding the plant.

• First year for SR5 and 4x4 versions of Toyota's compact truck • First year for torsion bar front suspension and five - speed manual transmission • Top News Story in 1979 — partial meltdown of Three - Mile Island nuclear power plant

«Medusa» is part of a large body of sculptures featuring other famous catastrophes, including the nuclear meltdown of Three Mile Island.

In combination with Three Mile Island Meltdown, a groundswell of negativity was created that the nuclear industry in America never recovered from.

The «Meltdown» referred to in the lyrics of «London Calling» was refering to «Nuclear Meltdown» — the Three Mile Island incident and because of this, decades later, the Environmentalists won't let politicians build nuclear power stations to solve the Green Energy Gap pNuclear Meltdown» — the Three Mile Island incident and because of this, decades later, the Environmentalists won't let politicians build nuclear power stations to solve the Green Energy Gap pnuclear power stations to solve the Green Energy Gap problem.