World & Nation
Energy: More than 100 gather at predawn Three Mile Island ceremony. Incident in 1979 brought dramatic change to the atomic power industry.
March 29, 1999
As the dark stain of Chernobyl covers the shadow of Three Mile Island, nuclear power accidents have moved from the impossible to the unthinkable.
April 30, 1986
The accident at the Chernobyl nuclear reactor in the Soviet Union raises again the question of the safety of nuclear power technology in the United States--a question that has been largely quiescent since the Three Mile Island accident on March 28, 1979.
May 2, 1986
As much as 20% of the core of the Three Mile Island nuclear plant melted in the 1979 accident, according to a report released by a federal contractor.
April 11, 1985
The Supreme Court cleared the way for the immediate restart of a nuclear reactor at Three Mile Island near Harrisburg, Pa., site in 1979 of the nation’s worst commercial nuclear plant accident.
Oct. 3, 1985
A $3.9-million settlement has been reached on lawsuits stemming from the 1979 nuclear power plant accident at Three Mile Island, near Harrisburg, Pa., with the two largest awards going to parents of children born with birth defects.
Feb. 8, 1985
A train hauling the second of an expected 20 shipments of radioactive debris from Pennsylvania’s 1979 Three Mile Island nuclear accident to Idaho carried twice as much waste as was carried on the first cross-country trip in July, an Energy Department official said.
Sept. 4, 1986
A study of residents living near the Three Mile Island nuclear plant found no evidence of increased cancer as a result of the 1979 accident that released radioactive gas, Pennsylvania health officials said.
Sept. 6, 1985
Some nuclear fuel melted in the reactor core during the 1979 accident at Three Mile Island, scientists disclosed in Middletown, Pa.
Feb. 22, 1985
The first shipment of radioactive fuel, damaged in a March, 1979, accident, has been moved from the Three Mile Island nuclear plant in Pennsylvania on a rail trip to the Department of Energy’s National Engineering Laboratory in Idaho Falls, Ida., officials for both GPU Nuclear Corp., which operates the plant, and the Department of Energy contractor, EG&G; Inc., said in Middletown, Pa.
July 22, 1986