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The Three Mile Island station is located on 814 acres of an island near the state capitol at Harrisburg. Three Mile Island may be the most widely known nuclear power plant in the United States due to an accident to its number 2 reactor. The second reactor was permanently shut down following an accident on March 28, 1979. A combination of equipment malfunctions and human error led to a loss of coolant. It remains the most significant accident on record at a U.S. nuclear power plant. The lessons learned from Three Mile Island, however, resulted in enhancements in training, safety procedures, emergency operation, and oversight. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has an excellent fact sheet on the subject. [1]
Three Mile Island 2 (Decommissioned) Shurdown: 03-28-79
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Three Mile Island
PO Box 480
Middletown, Pennsylvania (PA) 17057
USA
